59.6% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.2%
- 2016: 55.7%
- 2021: 59.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wheatsheaf · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wheatsheaf
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Over a third of adults in Wheatsheaf hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure well above the national average. This makes the area much more highly qualified than most similar places. While school completion is about the same as the Australian figure, the high rate of university degrees stands out.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 59.6% of residents completed Year 12, which is much higher than most similar areas. This result is about the same as the national figure and just a little below the Victorian average.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wheatsheaf, Year 12 is the majority at 62%; Year 10 is next at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University qualifications are common here, with 34.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well above the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
34.4% ▲ +63.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 34.4%
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 Wheatsheaf, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 33%, followed by Certificate III / IV (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are society and culture at 15.6%, followed by engineering at 13.6% and education at 13.0%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller in this regard 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 Wheatsheaf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22765/wheatsheaf/topic/education