42.5% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 40.1%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Seaham · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Seaham
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More than half of adults in Seaham hold a Certificate III or IV, making practical trade skills a common part of daily life here. While 42.5% of residents have finished Year 12, this is far below the national figure of 58.8%.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates have risen by 7.4 percentage points since 2011, though at 42.5% they remain far below the New South Wales average of 58.9%. About 37.8% of people here stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Seaham splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (44%) and Year 10 (39%), with Year 11 at 9%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 11.9% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the Australian figure of 26.3% and has fallen since 2011. Most qualified adults hold a Certificate III or IV, accounting for 51.4% of the group.
11.9% ▼ -15.7%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 11.9%
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 Seaham, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 60%; Bachelor degree is next at 19%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 28.4%. Other frequent areas of study include management and commerce at 15.1%, and education at 11.9%.
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 Seaham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122117/seaham/topic/education