43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Turriff · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
No adults in Turriff hold a bachelor's degree or higher, a figure far below the national average. This highlights a community where few residents have pursued higher education, with schooling levels also sitting well below the state and national figures.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 43.5% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. Roughly a quarter of the population reached Year 10, while 17.4% reached Year 11.
43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Turriff, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (30%) and Year 11 (20%).
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 0.0%, which is among the lowest for similar areas and far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Turriff, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Agriculture & environment at 29%, ahead of Engineering & related (21%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Turriff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22589/turriff/topic/education