48.9% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Roundstone · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 18 percentage points separates Roundstone from the national average for university degrees. This is a place where formal schooling often ends early, and higher education is much less common than in the rest of the country.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 48.9% of residents finished Year 12, which is well below the national figure of 58.8% and the state average of 57.1%.
48.9% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Roundstone, Year 12 is the majority at 51%; Year 10 is next at 38%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are rare here; just 8.5% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national average of 26.3%.
8.5% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Roundstone, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 40%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (30%) and Certificate III / IV (30%).
What people studied.
For those with a qualification, the most common field is agriculture and environment at 21.7%, followed by society and culture and creative arts at 13% each.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area is sparsely populated and has no schools within 3 km, which is the case for about 59% of similar areas.
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 Roundstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32485/roundstone/topic/education