57.7% ▲ +39.7%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 57.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Ocean Shores · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Ocean Shores
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Education levels in Ocean Shores are now very similar to state and national figures, despite a massive jump in qualifications over the last decade. The area has seen a sharp increase in schooling and degrees, with the proportion of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher climbing 13 points since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion has risen 16 points since 2011 to 57.7%, which is among the highest for similar areas. This figure is a little below the New South Wales and Australian averages.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Ocean Shores, Year 12 is the majority at 64%; Year 10 is next at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 26.7% of adults, a result that is about the same as the national figure. Many residents also hold vocational certificates, with 24.7% having a Certificate III or IV.
26.7% ▲ +94.2%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Ocean Shores splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (32%) and Certificate III / IV (31%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with society and culture (13.5%) and management and commerce (13.1%) being the most common areas of study.
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 Ocean Shores [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115115/ocean-shores/topic/education