45.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Promised Land · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer residents in Promised Land have completed high school or university compared to the national average. Only 45.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Australian figure of 58.8%. This gap extends to higher education, where the proportion of adults with a university degree is well below the state average.
Highest year of school completed.
About 45.5% of residents completed Year 12, a result slightly below the Tasmanian figure. Another 27.3% of the population listed Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
45.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Promised Land, Year 12 is the majority at 63%; Year 10 is next at 38%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 12.5% of the population. This is well below the 21.9% seen across Tasmania and far below the national figure of 26.3%.
12.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Promised Land splits fairly evenly between Advanced diploma / diploma (38%) and Certificate III / IV (38%), with Bachelor degree at 23%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Natural & physical sciences at 0%, ahead of Information technology (0%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area. This makes Promised Land smaller than about 59% of similar areas in terms of local school access.
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 Promised Land [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60523/promised-land/topic/education