41.4% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 64% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Medowie · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Medowie
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Year 12 completion rates have risen by 7.2 percentage points since 2011 in Medowie. While school finishing rates are climbing, the area still has far fewer people with university degrees than the state or national average. This creates a profile where trade qualifications are much more common than academic ones.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 41.4% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. However, this result is an improvement from 2011, when the rate was 34.3%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Medowie, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 9 or below (13%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are uncommon here; only 12.7% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Instead, trade certificates are the most common qualification, held by 44.8% of residents.
12.7% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Medowie, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most popular area of study for those with qualifications, accounting for 23.3% of degrees. Management and commerce follow at 17.1%.
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 Medowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1020/medowie/topic/education