46.7% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Fish Creek · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Fish Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A surge in university degrees defines the recent shift in Fish Creek, where the share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher climbed 16 points since 2011. While this trend sees the town performing better than most similar areas, the number of people who finished Year 12 remains far below the Victorian average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 46.7% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the state figure of 61.8%. This rate has risen 4.2 points since 2011, though 18% of people still list Year 9 or below as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Fish Creek, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 9 or below is next at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Nearly a quarter of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. This group makes up 24.7% of the population, though it remains a little below the national average of 26.3%.
24.7% ▲ +193.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Fish Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 33%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Graduate diploma / certificate (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the town are spread across several fields, led by Education at 16.9% and Agriculture and Environment at 11.0%. Health is another common area of study, accounting for 10.2% of qualifications.
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 Fish Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222025/fish-creek/topic/education