20.7% ▲ +13.9%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Baradine · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Baradine
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 20.7% of people in Baradine finished Year 12, a figure far below the state and national averages. This reflects a local trend where most residents left school before the final year, though the number of people completing Year 12 has risen slightly since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 10 is the most common point for residents to leave school, accounting for 33.0% of the population. Those completing Year 12 are far fewer than in New South Wales, trailing the state by 38 points.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Baradine, the largest group is Year 10 at 41%, followed by Year 9 or below (26%) and Year 12 (26%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by just 7.4% of adults, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. This rate has risen by 3.6 points since 2011, with Certificate III or IV being the most common qualification at 28.3%.
7.4% ▲ +95.6%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Baradine, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 55%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Health at 13.3% and Education at 10.3%. Engineering and related fields also make up 9.4% of the local qualifications.
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 Baradine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121002/baradine/topic/education