34.8% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Detention · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Detention
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in Detention have finished high school than in most similar areas. Only 34.8% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 47.1%.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the national figure of 58.8%. For those who did not finish school, 21.7% left after Year 11 and 17.4% after Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Detention, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 11 (29%) and Year 10 (24%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are very rare here, with no adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 26.3% seen across 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).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Detention, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Natural & physical sciences at 0%, ahead of Information technology (0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, a result that is more common than in 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).
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Detention [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60153/detention/topic/education