45.1% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 52.0%
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 45.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Sale · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Sale
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of Sale residents have completed Year 12, at 45.1%. This is far below the national figure, and the rate of school completion has actually fallen since 2011. While some residents hold high-level degrees, the community generally has lower school and university completion rates than most of Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 45.1% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the 61.8% seen across Victoria. This figure has dropped by 6.9 percentage points since 2011, with 12.7% of the population leaving school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Sale, the largest group is Year 12 at 49%, followed by Year 10 (20%) and Year 11 (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here, with 17.3% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the Australian average and represents a 6.7 percentage point drop since 2011; instead, Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification at 33.7%.
17.3% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 17.3%
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 Sale, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 41%, followed by Bachelor degree (24%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common areas of study for those with qualifications are engineering and related fields at 16.1%, followed by management and commerce at 13.4% and health at 13.0%.
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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2015/sale/topic/education