30.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wedderburn Junction · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 32 percentage points separates Wedderburn Junction from the Victorian average for Year 12 completion. This sparsely populated area has a low level of formal schooling and no residents with a university degree.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 30% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. The most common highest levels of schooling are Year 11 and Year 10, each at 40%.
30.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wedderburn Junction splits fairly evenly between Year 11 (30%) and Year 10 (30%), with Year 12 at 22%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher, a result that is far below the 26.3% national average.
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 Wedderburn Junction, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 33%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Management & commerce at 30%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area.
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 Wedderburn Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22734/wedderburn-junction/topic/education