8.2% —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wutunugurra · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Wutunugurra
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 8.2% of people in Wutunugurra have finished Year 12, a figure far below the national average. The area is sparsely populated and has very low rates of formal schooling and university degrees. Most residents left school by Year 10 or earlier.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Nearly half of residents finished Year 9 or below, while 37.1% reached Year 10. The share of people completing Year 12 fell from 14.2% in 2016 to 8.2% in 2021, leaving it far below the Northern Territory figure of 49.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wutunugurra, the largest group is Year 9 or below at 47%, followed by Year 10 (37%) and Year 12 (8%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by only 4.0% of adults, which is among the lowest levels for similar areas. This is far below the Australian figure of 26.3%, though it did rise slightly from 2.4% in 2016.
4.0% —
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Wutunugurra, Bachelor degree is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Society & culture at 25%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
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 Wutunugurra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722038/wutunugurra/topic/education