22.6% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wangkatjungka · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Wangkatjungka
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents in Wangkatjungka have finished high school or university than in 2011. The area is now far below the national figure for Year 12 completions, with only 22.6% of people reaching that milestone.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion rates have fallen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011. Only 22.6% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 58.0%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wangkatjungka splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (29%) and Year 11 (24%), with Year 9 or below at 24%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is rare here, with only 3.6% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Australian average of 26.3% and represents a 2.5 percentage point drop since 2011.
3.6% ▼ -41.5%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Wangkatjungka, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 46%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (31%) and Certificate III / IV (23%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are Education at 27.8% and Society and Culture at 16.7%.
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 Wangkatjungka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522062/wangkatjungka/topic/education