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Education & Qualifications in Safety Beach

How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.

High levels of tertiary education set Safety Beach apart from most similar areas. A striking 27.3% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, and the number of people finishing Year 12 has jumped 24 percentage points since 2011.

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Where Safety Beach sits — Adults with a bachelor degree or higher

27.3% ▲ +290.2%

All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Safety Beach — higher than 92% of areas.

Safety Beach27.3%
2456, NSW 19.0%
New South Wales 27.8%
Australia 26.3%

Schooling

Highest year of school completed.

Over half of residents finished Year 12, which is much higher than in most similar areas. However, this 52.5% figure remains well below the state and national averages.

Completed Year 12

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52.5% ▲ +83.1%

Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.

Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.

Highest year of school

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In Safety Beach, Year 12 is the majority at 54%; Year 10 is next at 29%.

Year 12 52.5% Year 10 27.8% Year 9 or below 10.0% Year 11 7.2%

Qualifications

Post-school qualifications and degrees.

The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher rose 20 percentage points since 2011 to reach 27.3%. This is among the highest levels for this type of area and is slightly above the national figure.

Adults with a bachelor degree or higher

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27.3% ▲ +290.2%

Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.

Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).

Highest qualification level

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Safety Beach splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (34%) and Bachelor degree (33%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 19%.

Certificate III / IV 30.7% Bachelor degree 29.5% Advanced diploma / diploma 16.9% Postgraduate degree 6.0% Graduate diploma / certificate 5.7% Certificate I / II 0.7%

Field of study

What people studied.

Education is the most common field of qualification at 19.5%, followed by management and commerce at 15.4% and society and culture at 12.8%.

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 Safety Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121100/safety-beach/topic/education