50.8% ▲ +40.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Laharum · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Laharum
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More residents in Laharum hold higher qualifications than in most similar areas. While the typical resident is less likely to have finished high school compared to the rest of Australia, about 20% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Half of the population has completed Year 12, which is higher than most similar areas, though this is well below the national figure of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Laharum, Year 12 is the majority at 55%; Year 11 is next at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 20% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that stands above most similar areas but remains well below the Victorian average of 29.2%.
20.0% ▲ +138.7%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Laharum splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (30%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (29%), with Graduate diploma / certificate at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most common in agriculture and environment at 16.9%, followed by management and commerce at 15.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km, which is a smaller number of facilities than about 59% of similar areas.
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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 Laharum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21426/laharum/topic/education