43.6% ▼ -4.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.7%
- 2016: 43.6%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tatong · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Tatong
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer adults in Tatong have finished high school or university compared to the state average. Only 43.6% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. This gap in formal education is a key feature of the local profile.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The proportion of people who finished Year 12 is far below the national figure, with 43.6% completing their secondary schooling. Roughly 20% of residents stopped after Year 11, and another 19.6% finished at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tatong, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 11 (22%) and Year 10 (21%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are much less common here than in the rest of Victoria, where 29.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher compared to just 13.7% in Tatong. Instead, the most typical qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 38.8% of adults.
13.7% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 Tatong, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (23%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most common fields are Engineering and Agriculture, both at 13.2%, followed by Health at 10.5% and Society and Culture at 9.9%.
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 common trait shared by about 59% of similar places.
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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).
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Tatong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22466/tatong/topic/education