30.3% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Kew · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Kew
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly half of qualified adults in Kew (L) hold a Certificate III or IV. While university degrees are more common here than in most similar areas, the proportion of people finishing Year 12 is far below the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 30.3% of people finished Year 12, a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen since 2011. The most common highest school year reached was Year 10 at 31.7%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Kew splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (33%) and Year 12 (32%), with Year 9 or below at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 15.1% of adults, which is higher than in most similar areas but still far below the New South Wales figure. This proportion rose slightly by 1.0 percentage point since 2011.
15.1% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 15.1%
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 Kew, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are Engineering and related subjects at 19.3%, followed by Management and commerce at 17.5% and Society and culture at 14.5%.
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 Kew [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122071/kew/topic/education