33.1% ▲ +62.1%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Yeoval · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Yeoval
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Yeoval, held by 43.5% of residents. While the area has a lower level of formal schooling than most, the proportion of people finishing Year 12 rose 13 points since 2011 to reach 33.1%.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the national figure of 58.8%, though it has improved recently. About 32% of people finished Year 10, while 22.5% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Yeoval splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (34%) and Year 10 (33%), with Year 9 or below at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 8% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. This figure has risen 6 points since 2011, and 21.7% of the community now list a bachelor degree as their highest qualification.
8.0% ▲ +294.9%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 Yeoval, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 50%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Engineering and related studies being the most common at 17.4%. Education follows at 14.5%, with Society and Culture, Architecture and Building, and Agriculture and Environment each accounting for around 12%.
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 Yeoval [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122158/yeoval/topic/education