34.5% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tomingley · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tomingley
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 24 percentage points exists between Tomingley and the national average for Year 12 completion. This area has much lower levels of formal schooling and higher education than most other parts of the country, with only 9.7% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. About 23.8% of people in the area finished Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tomingley, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (30%) and Year 9 or below (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 9.7% of the population, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 25.5% of residents.
9.7% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Tomingley, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (25%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for those with qualifications are health at 10.6% and agriculture and environment at 10.1%. Engineering and related fields follow closely at 9.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number than about 59% of similar areas.
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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tomingley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13914/tomingley/topic/education