38.3% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.1%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tahmoor · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Tahmoor
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Tahmoor sits around the middle of similar areas for education, though it lags far behind state and national figures. Only 10.9% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, and the proportion of people finishing Year 12 has fallen to 38.3%.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Far fewer people finished Year 12 here than in the rest of Australia, where the figure is 58.8%. This rate has fallen by 2.8 points since 2011, with 35.4% of residents now listing Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Tahmoor splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (41%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is much less common than in New South Wales, where 27.8% of adults have a degree. In Tahmoor, the most typical qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 44.8% of residents.
10.9% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Tahmoor, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common area of study at 19.1%, followed by management and commerce at 16.6% and society and culture at 12.3%.
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 Tahmoor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114032/tahmoor/topic/education