29.0% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Broken Hill · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Broken Hill
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Broken Hill have finished high school compared to the rest of the state. Only 29% of residents completed Year 12, which is 30 percentage points below the New South Wales and national figures. This creates a distinct educational profile for the area, where a larger proportion of adults hold trade certificates rather than university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 29% of people here finished Year 12, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and sits far below the national average. The most common highest year of school completed is Year 10, at 33.5%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Broken Hill, the largest group is Year 10 at 37%, followed by Year 12 (32%) and Year 9 or below (22%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in the state, with 10.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. However, this has risen by 1.9 percentage points since 2011, and trade certificates (Certificate III or IV) are the most common qualification at 39.3%.
10.4% ▲ +21.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Broken Hill, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most popular fields of qualification are Engineering and related subjects at 18.3%, followed by Health at 12.6% and Management and commerce at 12.5%.
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113003/broken-hill/topic/education