27.5% ▲ +22.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Golden Beach · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Golden Beach
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 34 percentage points separates Golden Beach from Victoria in terms of Year 12 completion. This area has a much lower rate of formal schooling and university degrees compared to the state and national figures, with only 10.5% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 27.5% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This is much lower than most areas, with 26.6% of people listing Year 10 as their highest school year.
Highest year of school
View on map →Golden Beach splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (32%) and Year 10 (31%), with Year 9 or below at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.5% of the population, far below the 26.3% national average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 40.8% of residents.
10.5% ▲ +170.3%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Golden Beach, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 20.1%, followed by society and culture at 14.2% and management and commerce at 11.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of this area, a figure that is smaller 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 Golden Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21054/golden-beach/topic/education