33.3% ▲ +39.2%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Greta · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Greta
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 26 percentage points separates Greta from the state and national figures for Year 12 completion. While more people have finished high school than a decade ago, the area still sees far fewer adults with university degrees than most other places.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33.3% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This is a rise of 9.4 percentage points since 2011, though Year 10 remains the most common highest year of school at 37.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Greta splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (40%) and Year 12 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The 8.4% of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. Most residents hold a Certificate III or IV, which 56.1% of the population have achieved.
8.4% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Greta, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 65%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications here at 26.2%, followed by management and commerce at 15.9%. Other common areas of study include health and society and culture.
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 Greta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115070/greta/topic/education