24.4% ▼ -36.9%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Lockington · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Lockington
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 37 percentage points separates Lockington (L) from the Victorian average for Year 12 completions. This is an area where far fewer people have finished high school or earned a university degree compared to the state or national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 24.4% of people here completed Year 12, a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen 14 points since 2011. About a quarter of residents finished Year 10, while 19.7% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Lockington splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (28%) and Year 10 (28%), with Year 9 or below at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by just 6.0% of adults, which is much lower than most areas and down nearly 10 points since 2011. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 38.9% of residents.
6.0% ▼ -62.2%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 Lockington, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 61%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across various fields, with the largest groups studying society and culture at 13.0% and engineering at 11.7%. Agriculture and environment and health each account for 10.5% of the qualifications held.
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 Lockington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222046/lockington/topic/education