33.3% ▲ +30.2%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Brooms Head · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Brooms Head
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A diverse range of skills defines Brooms Head (L), where 16.7% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. While university qualifications are higher than in most similar areas, far fewer residents finished high school compared to the state average. This creates a unique mix of highly qualified professionals and those with more practical backgrounds.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33.3% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. However, this has risen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011, and the most common highest school year reached is Year 10 at 42.7%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is Year 10 at 45%, followed by Year 12 (35%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 16.7%, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3% but higher than most similar areas. Certificate III or IV is the most common qualification level at 27.4%.
16.7% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 37%, followed by Bachelor degree (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (24%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across various fields, with education being the most common at 15.3%. This is followed closely by architecture and building at 14.5%, while engineering and management each account for 12.9%.
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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122027/brooms-head/topic/education