33.9% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Elizabeth Town · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Elizabeth Town
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Forty per cent of people in Elizabeth Town left school after Year 10, reflecting a broader trend of lower educational attainment. This is a place where formal schooling and higher degrees are much less common than in the rest of the state or nation.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 47.1% and the national rate of 58.8%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Elizabeth Town, the largest group is Year 10 at 42%, followed by Year 12 (35%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14.1% of the population, well below the state average. The most common qualification here is a Certificate III or IV, held by 38.9% of residents.
14.1% ▲ +46.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
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 Elizabeth Town, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Society and Culture being the most common at 13.7% each, followed by Health at 12.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Elizabeth Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60186/elizabeth-town/topic/education