58.8% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 61.3%
- 2016: 58.1%
- 2021: 58.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
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Education & Qualifications in Not in any Significant Urban Area
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A mix of high-level degrees and lower school completion rates shapes the workforce in Not in any Significant Urban Area (ACT). While 27% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, only 58.8% of residents have finished Year 12. This creates a stark contrast between those with university qualifications and those who left school early.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the ACT average at 58.8%, though this is about the same as the national figure. This rate has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Not in any Significant Urban Area, Year 12 is the majority at 69%; Year 10 is next at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 27% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the Australian average. This is a slight drop from 28.5% in 2011.
27.0% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 27.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Not in any Significant Urban Area splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (32%) and Certificate III / IV (29%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across various fields, with the most common being society and culture at 15.4% and management and commerce at 13.6%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/8000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/education