55.6% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 55.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dunoon · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Dunoon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher education is a defining feature of life in Dunoon, where over a quarter of adults hold a university degree. While school completion rates trail the national figure, the community has seen a significant rise in both high school and university qualifications over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 55.6% of residents have completed Year 12, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 58.8%. This rate has risen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Dunoon, Year 12 is the majority at 63%; Year 10 is next at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 27.8% of adults, placing Dunoon among the highest areas for this level of study. This figure is about the same as the New South Wales average and has climbed 8.2 percentage points since 2011.
27.8% ▲ +41.6%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Dunoon splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (36%) and Bachelor degree (32%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 14%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common areas of study are society and culture at 14.2%, followed by health at 13.1% and education at 11.3%.
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 Dunoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121033/dunoon/topic/education