68.0% ▲ +130.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 68.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Shoreham · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Shoreham
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far more adults in Shoreham hold university degrees than the state or national average. This high level of schooling is a recent change, with the number of people who finished Year 12 jumping from 29.5% in 2011 to 68% in 2021.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is well above the national figure at 68%, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 29.5% of residents had finished their final year of school.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Shoreham, Year 12 is the majority at 71%; Year 11 is next at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is very common here, with 42.8% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far above the Victorian average of 29.2%, with a typical qualification being a bachelor degree (37.5%) or a postgraduate degree (17.1%).
42.8% ▲ +396.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 42.8%
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 Shoreham, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 43%, followed by Postgraduate degree (20%) and Certificate III / IV (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for those with qualifications are society and culture at 16.2%, followed by management and commerce at 14.6%.
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 Shoreham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221065/shoreham/topic/education