22.5% ▼ -3.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Jeparit · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Jeparit
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower share of people in Jeparit have finished high school than in the rest of Victoria. Only 22.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is much lower than the state and national figures. This pattern of lower formal schooling is reflected in the town's qualification levels.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the lowest for similar areas, sitting at 22.5%, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. This has barely changed since 2011. Roughly equal numbers of people finished Year 10 or Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Jeparit splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (27%) and Year 9 or below (27%), with Year 12 at 26%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 5.6% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. This is much lower than most areas and has fallen 6.1 percentage points since 2011. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV at 37.2%.
5.6% ▼ -52.1%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Jeparit, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 56%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are most often in Health at 17.5%, followed by Engineering and related fields at 14.6% and Society and culture at 10.9%.
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 Jeparit [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222035/jeparit/topic/education