61.9% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 64.0%
- 2021: 61.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Minding · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A huge gap in higher education marks Minding, where no adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. While 61.9% of people finished Year 12, the area lacks the university qualifications seen across the rest of the state.
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is well above the national figure at 61.9%, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
61.9% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Minding, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 10 is next at 36%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is far below both Western Australia and Australia.
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 Minding, Advanced diploma / diploma is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Engineering & related at 33%, ahead of Health (25%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller in this regard 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 Minding [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50962/minding/topic/education