61.9% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.0%
- 2016: 80.0%
- 2021: 61.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wilberforce · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Wilberforce
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher school completion rates than the national average define the educational landscape in Wilberforce. While 61.9% of residents have finished Year 12, the area lacks local schooling facilities. This means most students must travel outside the suburb for their education.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Finishing Year 12 is much more common here than in most similar areas. At 61.9%, this figure is well above both the Western Australian rate of 58.0% and the national figure of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Wilberforce, Year 12 is the majority at 100%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 19.0% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the 23.8% seen across Western Australia and the 26.3% national average.
19.0% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Wilberforce splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (50%) and Certificate III / IV (50%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Agriculture & environment at 23%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (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 terms of local education access than about 59% of similar areas.
0
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 Wilberforce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51604/wilberforce/topic/education