36.0% ▲ +43.0%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Uranquinty · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Uranquinty
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 23 percentage points separates Uranquinty from the state average for Year 12 completion. While the area has seen a rise in both school and university finishes, it remains far below the national figures for higher education. Only 13.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 36% of residents have finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This is an improvement for the area, with the rate rising 11 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Uranquinty splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (39%), with Year 9 or below at 15%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 13.6%, which is higher than most similar areas but still far below the national average. Nearly half of all qualifications here are Certificate III or IV levels.
13.6% ▲ +91.0%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
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 Uranquinty, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 56%; Bachelor degree is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for residents are management and commerce at 16%, followed by engineering and related fields at 14.7%.
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 Uranquinty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121112/uranquinty/topic/education