33.3% ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Numurkah · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Numurkah
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 Numurkah, held by 35.6% of adults. This is an area where fewer people have finished high school or university compared to the rest of the state. Only 33.3% of residents have completed Year 12, though this figure has risen slightly since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33.3% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. Other common levels include 21.3% who finished Year 10 and 17.7% who left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Numurkah, the largest group is Year 12 at 38%, followed by Year 10 (24%) and Year 9 or below (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.1% of the population, a result far below the national figure of 26.3%. This proportion has fallen slightly since 2011.
10.1% ▼ -12.8%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 Numurkah, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 50%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most common fields are engineering (12.6%) and health (12.2%), followed by management, commerce, society, and culture at 10.8% 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 Numurkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215065/numurkah/topic/education