29.2% ▲ +16.7%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Brim · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Brim
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Education levels in Brim have remained low compared to the rest of the country, with only 29.2% of residents completing Year 12. This is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. The area is sparsely populated with very few people holding university degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 29.2% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This is much lower than most similar areas, with 27.8% of people leaving school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Brim splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (32%) and Year 9 or below (31%), with Year 10 at 22%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by just 5.4% of adults, far below the 26.3% national average. Most qualified residents hold a Certificate III or IV, which accounts for 43.3% of the group.
5.4% ▲ +22.8%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Brim, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 66%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 16%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are health at 16.4%, followed by agriculture and environment at 13.4% and engineering at 11.9%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, making it smaller for education access than about 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Brim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20339/brim/topic/education