31.6% ▼ -25.2%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Red Cliffs · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Red Cliffs
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Red Cliffs, held by 40.3% of residents. This is an area where formal schooling and higher degrees are much less common than in the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.6% of people have completed Year 12, which is far below the Victorian figure of 61.8%. This result has fallen by 11 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Red Cliffs, the largest group is Year 12 at 36%, followed by Year 10 (24%) and Year 9 or below (22%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is uncommon here, with only 7.0% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3% and has dropped since 2011.
7.0% ▼ -36.9%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Red Cliffs, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 58%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 12.7%, followed by engineering at 12.1% and society and culture at 11.8%.
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 Red Cliffs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215070/red-cliffs/topic/education