42.6% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Perenjori · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Perenjori
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 19 percentage points separates Perenjori from the national figure for bachelor degrees, highlighting a local focus on practical training. While university degrees are rare, there has been a steady climb in the number of people finishing high school.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The share of residents who finished Year 12 rose 8.3 points since 2011 to reach 42.6%, though this remains far below the Western Australian figure of 58.0%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Perenjori, the largest group is Year 12 at 49%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 11 (12%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 7.1% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is much lower than most areas and fell 4.4 points since 2011. Instead, Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, held by 35.3% of the population.
7.1% ▼ -38.4%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Perenjori, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 55%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most often in management and commerce (16.2%), followed by health and education at 10.3% 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 Perenjori [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522054/perenjori/topic/education