34.8% ▲ +13.5%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rowsley · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Rowsley
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 27 percentage points separates Rowsley from the Victorian average for Year 12 completion. Only 34.8% of residents here finished high school, which is far below the state and national figures. This trend continues into higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in the wider community.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.8% of people completed Year 12, a figure that is far below the same state average of 61.8%. Other common levels of schooling include Year 10 for 21.9% of residents and Year 9 or below for 12.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rowsley, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (28%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 15.7% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification held is a Certificate III or IV, at 29.7%.
15.7% ▲ +122.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 Rowsley, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 50%, followed by Bachelor degree (32%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (13%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Rowsley most often studied engineering and related fields (18.0%) or management and commerce (15.6%). Other common fields include society and culture at 12.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Rowsley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22206/rowsley/topic/education