33.6% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wongarbon · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Wongarbon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in Wongarbon finished high school in 2021 than a decade ago, with the rate falling by 10 percentage points since 2011. Only 33.6% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the same figure for New South Wales and Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About a third of residents finished Year 12, while an equal share topped out at Year 10. This level of schooling is far below the state and national figures.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wongarbon splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (37%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 12.1% of the population, which is far below the New South Wales average. Nearly half of all qualifications held here are Certificate III or IV levels.
12.1% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Wongarbon, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 59%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are most common in engineering and related fields at 16.1%, followed closely by management and commerce at 15.7%.
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 Wongarbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121122/wongarbon/topic/education