74.9% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.6%
- 2016: 65.5%
- 2021: 74.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wamboin · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wamboin
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher education levels have become a defining feature of Wamboin, where 41.2% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far above the national figure of 26.3%. The area is strongly characterised by high school completion rates and a professional workforce.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Nearly 75% of residents completed Year 12, which is far above both the state and national figures of around 59%. This puts Wamboin among the highest areas for school completion.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wamboin, Year 12 is the majority at 77%; Year 10 is next at 15%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Professional qualifications are very common here, with 41.2% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is 15 points higher than the Australian average, with 15.8% holding postgraduate degrees.
41.2% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Wamboin, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 35%, followed by Certificate III / IV (22%) and Postgraduate degree (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are management and commerce at 18.7%, followed by society and culture at 16.9% and engineering at 14.4%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a common trait for 59% of similar places.
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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Wamboin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14141/wamboin/topic/education