41.4% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Karakin · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Karakin
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Karakin compared to the rest of the state. Only 41.4% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 58.0%. This gap extends to higher education, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is much lower than the national average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 41.4%, which is far below both the state and national figures. Around 34.8% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Karakin, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 10 (39%) and Year 11 (9%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 9.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the Australian average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 41.8% of people.
9.6% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Karakin, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 59%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Karakin are most often trained in engineering and related fields at 25.4%, followed by education at 11.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number than about 59% of similar areas.
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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 Karakin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50722/karakin/topic/education