34.7% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 48.0%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Boorowa · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Boorowa
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents in Boorowa have finished high school or university compared to the national average. Only 34.7% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This trend has dipped slightly since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The proportion of people finishing Year 12 is far below the Australian average, and this figure fell 2.5 percentage points since 2011. While 34.7% finished Year 12, about 28.1% of residents peaked at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Boorowa, the largest group is Year 12 at 42%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 11.0% of the population, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. This has decreased since 2011, while the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV at 33.0%.
11.0% ▼ -17.5%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Boorowa, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Bachelor degree is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across various fields, with Engineering and related studies being the most common at 11.9%. Management and commerce follow at 9.5%, with Health, Society and culture, and Education each accounting for about 9%.
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 Boorowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115023/boorowa/topic/education