40.6% ▲ +28.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Lilydale · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Lilydale
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people have finished high school in Lilydale compared to the rest of the country, with only 40.6% completing Year 12. This gap is seen across the board, as the area also has a much lower rate of university degrees than the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 40.6%, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 47.1% and far below the Australian average of 58.8%. About 31.6% of residents stopped at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Lilydale, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 9 or below (11%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 14.4% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is well below the state average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 35.9% of people.
14.4% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 Lilydale, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (16%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are engineering at 16.5%, followed by society and culture at 12% and management and commerce at 11.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has more schools per 1,000 children than most similar places, though the average school advantage score is much lower than most. All schools here are government-run and combined primary and secondary institutions.
7.87
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
291
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
939
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Lilydale
1 school — 291 students, average ICSEA 939.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Lilydale District School, Lilydale | Government | Combined | 2.4 km | 291 | 939 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Lilydale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60341/lilydale/topic/education