37.0% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Nug Nug · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Nug Nug
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Just 37% of residents in Nug Nug have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This lack of formal schooling is a key feature of the area, where university degrees are also much less common than across Victoria.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37% of people here finished Year 12, a figure far below the 61.8% seen across Victoria. This is matched by the 37% of residents whose highest level of schooling was Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Nug Nug splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (42%) and Year 10 (42%), with Year 11 at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are relatively rare, with only 14.8% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
14.8% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 14.8%
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 Nug Nug, Bachelor degree is the majority at 57%; Certificate III / IV is next at 43%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Engineering & related at 27%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller in this regard than about 59% of similar places.
0
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 Nug Nug [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21978/nug-nug/topic/education