30.0% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Trangie · Urban Centre
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Trangie have completed high school or university than in most other similar areas. Only 30% of residents finished Year 12, a figure that has stayed exactly the same since 2011. This creates a gap of nearly 30 percentage points compared to the national average.
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than across Australia, with only 30% of people reaching that milestone. This is a trend that has barely changed over the last decade.
30.0% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Trangie splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (36%) and Year 10 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 22%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare in Trangie, where only 7.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8% and has fallen since 2011.
7.1% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Trangie, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 19%.
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are engineering and related services at 16.8%, followed by education at 12.2% and health at 9.6%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Trangie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121111/trangie/topic/education