36.6% ▲ +35.2%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Nar Nar Goon · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Nar Nar Goon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More than half of qualified adults in Nar Nar Goon (L) hold a Certificate III or IV, reflecting a local workforce geared toward practical skills. While formal schooling rates have risen by 9.5 points since 2011, the area still has far fewer residents with university degrees than the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 36.6%, which is far below the Victorian rate of 61.8%. However, this is an improvement from 2011, when only 27.1% of residents had finished their final year of school.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Nar Nar Goon, the largest group is Year 12 at 39%, followed by Year 10 (26%) and Year 11 (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 9.5% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. Most qualified residents hold a Certificate III or IV, which accounts for 51.9% of the highest qualifications held.
9.5% ▲ +26.9%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Nar Nar Goon, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 62%; Bachelor degree is next at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Practical fields dominate local qualifications, with Engineering (18.1%) and Architecture and building (14.3%) being the most common areas of study.
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 Nar Nar Goon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221052/nar-nar-goon/topic/education