42.1% ▲ +22.5%
Lower than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 62.3%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Horsham · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Horsham
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More people in Horsham have finished high school and earned degrees than they did in 2011. While the typical resident is less likely to have a university degree than those in the wider state, the local level of education has steadily climbed over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rose by 7.7 percentage points since 2011 to reach 42.1%. This remains far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%, with 19.4% of residents having Year 11 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Horsham, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 11 (21%) and Year 10 (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14.8% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 37% of residents.
14.8% ▲ +33.9%
Lower than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
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 Horsham, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 45%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for those with qualifications are management and commerce at 14.9%, followed closely by health at 14.1% and engineering at 12.4%.
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 Horsham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2010/horsham/topic/education