42.9% ▲ +12.5%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 42.8%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yellingbo · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Yellingbo
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of Yellingbo adults have finished Year 12, which reflects a local trend toward practical trade and vocational training. The area's education profile is far below the state and national averages for both school completion and university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 42.9% of residents completed Year 12, a figure far below the 61.8% seen in Victoria. Around 20% of people stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Yellingbo, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 10 (22%) and Year 11 (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in most of Australia, with just 15.1% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. Instead, Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most typical, held by 39.2% of the population.
15.1% ▲ +64.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 15.1%
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 Yellingbo, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (22%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common areas of study for those with qualifications are engineering and related fields at 15.3%, followed by management and commerce at 13.1%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one government primary school within 3 km, which is larger than schools in about 59% of similar areas. Its average size is 429 students.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
429
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
986
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Yellingbo
1 school — 429 students, average ICSEA 986.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Woori Yallock Primary School, Woori Yallock | Government | Primary | 7.9 km | 429 | 986 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Yellingbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22925/yellingbo/topic/education