36.5% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Leeton · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Leeton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly 40% of qualified adults in Leeton hold a Certificate III or IV, making it the most common qualification in town. While many residents have gained trade or vocational skills, the area has a much lower rate of university degrees and high school completion compared to the rest of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 36.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This rate has fallen slightly since 2011, and about 32.6% of residents listed Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Leeton splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 11.6%, far below the national figure of 26.3%. This has dropped by 1.5 percentage points over the last decade.
11.6% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Leeton, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Engineering and related studies being the most common at 17.2%, followed closely by Management and commerce at 16.7%.
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 Leeton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114016/leeton/topic/education