31.3% ▼ -3.2%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Ashley · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Ashley
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A drop in university qualifications marks the recent trend in Ashley, where only 4.1% of adults now hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is among the lowest rates for this level in the region, and the number of people finishing Year 12 has also fallen slightly since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.3% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This result is much lower than most similar areas and has fallen 1.0 percentage points over the last decade.
Highest year of school
View on map →Ashley splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (38%) and Year 10 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is far below the national figure of 26.3%, falling from 9.3% in 2011 to 4.1% in 2021. Most qualified residents hold a Certificate III or IV, accounting for 43.1% of the group.
4.1% ▼ -56.3%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Ashley, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 65%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common areas of study at 24.4%, followed by Education, Management and commerce, and Society and culture, which each make up 8.9% of qualifications.
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 Ashley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122008/ashley/topic/education