34.8% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Broke · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Broke
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Much lower qualification rates than most similar areas define Broke (L), where only 5.5% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This gap is stark compared to the national figure of 26.3%. While Year 12 completion has risen slightly since 2011, the area remains far below state and national averages for formal schooling.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.8% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. About a third of people instead stopped at Year 10, and 13.5% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Broke splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 15%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with the share of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher falling to 5.5% since 2011. Instead, most qualified adults hold a Certificate III or IV, making up 57.1% of the group.
5.5% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Broke, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 70%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 16%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Broke (L) are strongest in Engineering and related fields at 26.4%. Other common areas of study include Management and commerce at 12.1%, followed by Agriculture, environment, and Health at 7.7% each.
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 Broke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122026/broke/topic/education