23.2% ▼ -21.5%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Amata · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Amata
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than a quarter of people in Amata have finished Year 12, reflecting a local education profile that sits far below state and national figures. While school completion rates have fallen, more adults are now holding higher qualifications than in previous years.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 23.2% of residents finished Year 12, a figure that is far below the South Australian average of 54.6% and has fallen by 6.4 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Amata splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (28%) and Year 9 or below (28%), with Year 11 at 27%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.2% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3% but has risen by 5.1 points since 2011.
10.2% ▲ +97.6%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Amata splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (24%) and Bachelor degree (22%), with Certificate I / II at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Education is the most common field of study for qualified residents at 15.1%, followed by society and culture at 6.7%.
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 Amata [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422002/amata/topic/education