36.0% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Venn · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than 40% of residents in Venn have finished high school, reflecting a significant gap in educational attainment compared to the rest of the country. This is a place where formal qualifications are less common than in most other Australian areas.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 36% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 49.8% and the national figure of 58.8%.
36.0% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Venn, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 9 or below (21%) and Year 10 (19%).
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is less common in Venn, with only 11.6% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the Northern Territory average of 21.5% and far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
11.6% ▲ +1.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Venn splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (48%) and Certificate III / IV (43%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 10%.
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are health at 6.7%, followed by engineering, agriculture and environment, and society and culture, which each account for 5.6%.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 kilometres of this area, making it smaller 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Venn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70271/venn/topic/education