13.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Paynes Find · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 46 percentage points separates Paynes Find from the national figure for Year 12 completion. This sparsely populated area has very few residents with high-level schooling or university degrees, with most adults leaving school around Year 10 or 11.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 13% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the 58.8% national average. Most people here reached Year 10 or 11 as their highest level of schooling.
13.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Paynes Find splits fairly evenly between Year 11 (43%) and Year 10 (43%), with Year 12 at 13%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 23.8%. Instead, Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification, held by 35% of adults.
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 Paynes Find, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, 20% studied engineering and related fields.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is smaller than 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 Paynes Find [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51215/paynes-find/topic/education