45.5% ▼ -35.5%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 70.5%
- 2016: 73.8%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Hinton · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Hinton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement for adults in Hinton (L), where 40.8% of people hold one. This is an area where schooling and university rates have both dropped sharply over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 45.5% of residents have finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure and represents a 25 point fall since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Hinton, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 16.0% of the population. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is far below the New South Wales average and fell 24 points since 2011.
16.0% ▼ -60.1%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 16.0%
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 Hinton, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Bachelor degree (21%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are engineering and related subjects at 22.5%, followed by management and commerce at 17.3%.
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 Hinton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122066/hinton/topic/education