24.9% ▲ +59.5%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Numbulwar · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Numbulwar
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 24.9% of people in Numbulwar have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This is a community where few adults hold university degrees, and a large proportion of residents left school in Year 9 or below.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, with 24.9% finishing compared to the national 58.8%. About 28.5% of residents had Year 9 or below as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Numbulwar splits fairly evenly between Year 9 or below (29%) and Year 10 (28%), with Year 12 at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare in Numbulwar, where only 4.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 21.5% seen across the Northern Territory, with more people holding Certificates III or IV instead.
4.6% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Numbulwar splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (35%) and Certificate I / II (33%), with Bachelor degree at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications most often studied society and culture, at 22.3%, followed by education at 18.8% and management and commerce at 12.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the average school size is smaller. All schooling is provided by a single government combined school.
7.19
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
113
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
597
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Numbulwar
1 school — 113 students, average ICSEA 597.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Numbulwar School, Numbulwar | Government | Combined | 1.6 km | 113 | 597 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Numbulwar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70213/numbulwar/topic/education