69.0% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 99% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 59.2%
- 2016: 64.3%
- 2021: 69.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
1 million or more · Section of State Range
Education & Qualifications in 1 million or more
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Management and commerce is the most common field of study in 1 million or more, where 25.3% of qualified residents specialise in these areas. This is a highly educated region, with 35% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. These figures are well above the national average, reflecting a strong trend toward higher qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Schooling levels in 1 million or more are among the highest for similar areas. About 69% of people completed Year 12, which is far above the Australian figure of 58.8% and represents a rise of 9.8 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In 1 million or more, Year 12 is the majority at 74%; Year 10 is next at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 35%, which is well above the national average of 26.3%. This figure rose 9.5 percentage points since 2011, with 15.1% of residents holding postgraduate degrees.
35.0% ▲ +37.2%
Higher than 99% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In 1 million or more, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 41%, followed by Certificate III / IV (19%) and Postgraduate degree (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Most qualifications are in management and commerce (25.3%), followed by society and culture at 12.2% and engineering at 11.6%. Health and education qualifications are less common, at 8.6% and 6.4% respectively.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in 1 million or more [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR101/1-million-or-more/topic/education