34.2% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.8%
- 2016: 47.8%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rylstone · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Rylstone
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents in Rylstone (L) have finished high school than in most other areas. While 13.2% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, the number of people completing Year 12 has fallen significantly to just 34.2%. This creates a local profile where a small group of highly qualified professionals lives alongside many who left school early.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.2% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This rate has fallen by 9.6 points since 2011, and nearly 20% of residents left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Rylstone splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (37%) and Year 10 (33%), with Year 9 or below at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 13.2%, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 26.3%. This has dropped 8.2 points since 2011, with Certificate III or IV now the most common qualification at 38.2%.
13.2% ▼ -38.4%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Rylstone, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (16%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with Engineering and related studies being the most common at 18.6%. Education and Health also feature strongly, making up 12.5% and 11.8% of degrees respectively.
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 Rylstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121099/rylstone/topic/education