58.6% ▲ +62.0%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 58.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Malmsbury · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Malmsbury
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A higher-than-average share of adults hold university degrees in Malmsbury, with 30.2% having a bachelor degree or higher. This is well above the national figure of 26.3%. The area has seen a significant shift in education over the last decade, with both school completion and degree attainment rising sharply since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 58.6% of residents finished Year 12, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average. This is a big increase for Malmsbury, as the rate rose by 22 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Malmsbury, Year 12 is the majority at 62%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is among the highest for similar areas and sits a little above the Victorian figure. This qualification rate jumped from 8.1% in 2011 to 30.2% in 2021.
30.2% ▲ +272.0%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 30.2%
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 Malmsbury, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 36%, followed by Bachelor degree (26%) and Postgraduate degree (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for qualified residents are society and culture at 14.6%, followed by education at 13.2% and engineering 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 Malmsbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221045/malmsbury/topic/education