34.4% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Meander · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Meander
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 24 percentage points separates Meander from the national average for Year 12 completion. Only 34.4% of residents have finished high school, which is far below both the state and national figures. This trend is mirrored in higher education, where the share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is much lower than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.4% of people here completed Year 12, a figure far below the Tasmanian average of 47.1%. About 34% of the population peaked at Year 10, while 12.2% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Meander splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (38%), with Year 9 or below at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Just 10.8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 32.7% of residents.
10.8% ▲ +30.1%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.8%
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 Meander, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 43%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (23%) and Bachelor degree (22%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are engineering and health, each at 14%, followed by management and commerce at 10.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Meander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60392/meander/topic/education