42.1% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Uki · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Uki
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people have finished high school in Uki since 2011, as the share of residents who completed Year 12 fell by 8.4 percentage points. Despite this drop, nearly 20% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 42.1% of people here completed Year 12, a figure that is far below the national average of 58.8%. This is a notable decline from 2011, when 50.6% of residents had finished high school.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Uki, Year 12 is the majority at 58%; Year 10 is next at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Around 19.8% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. This level of higher education has barely changed since 2011.
19.8% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 Uki, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 38%, followed by Bachelor degree (32%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications held by residents are in society and culture at 14.2%, followed by engineering and health, which both stand at 11.8%.
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 Uki [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122143/uki/topic/education