40.0% ▲ +23.4%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mount Gambier · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Mount Gambier
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 40% of residents in Mount Gambier have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. While more people have finished school and earned degrees than a decade ago, the area still has much lower rates of formal qualifications than most other parts of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than in the rest of South Australia, though the rate rose 7.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 40%. About 22% of residents stopped at Year 11 and 18.2% at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Mount Gambier, the largest group is Year 12 at 43%, followed by Year 11 (24%) and Year 10 (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 11.9% of the population, a figure far below the Australian average. This has risen slightly since 2011, and the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 42.1% of people.
11.9% ▲ +38.0%
Lower than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.9%
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 Mount Gambier, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in Mount Gambier most often studied management and commerce (16%) or engineering (15.6%). Other common fields include society and culture at 12.5% and health at 11.2%.
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4002/mount-gambier/topic/education