30.8% ▼ -40.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 52.0%
- 2016: 55.3%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Murtoa · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Murtoa
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A sharp decline in school and degree completion has marked Murtoa since 2011. Only 30.8% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This shift is part of a broader trend where both high school and university qualifications have fallen significantly over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion fell by 21 percentage points since 2011 to just 30.8%, a figure far below the 58.8% national average. About 22.4% of residents topped out at Year 10, while 17.9% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Murtoa, the largest group is Year 12 at 34%, followed by Year 10 (25%) and Year 11 (22%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher fell to 10.1% since 2011, which is far below the Victorian average of 29.2%. The most common top qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 34.5% of the population.
10.1% ▼ -47.8%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 Murtoa, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (23%) and Bachelor degree (20%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications are spread across several fields, with Health at 14.3% and Engineering at 14.0% being the most common. Education follows closely at 12.4%.
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 Murtoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221051/murtoa/topic/education