31.4% ▲ +63.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 51.8%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wellington · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Wellington
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Just over 31% of people in Wellington completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. While this is much lower than most areas, the number of people finishing high school has risen by 12 percentage points since 2011. This trend towards more schooling is matched by an increase in higher qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.4% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales average of 58.9%. About 29.5% of the population had Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wellington splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (37%) and Year 10 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 9.1%, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. This has grown since 2011, while Certificate III or IV remains the most common qualification at 34.3%.
9.1% ▲ +122.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Wellington, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are most often in management and commerce at 12.1%, followed by engineering and related fields at 11.6%.
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 Wellington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115155/wellington/topic/education