24.7% ▼ -53.3%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 52.8%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Willaura · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Willaura
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement for adults in Willaura (L), where 29.6% of people hold one. This is a place where formal schooling and higher degrees have both seen a sharp decline over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 24.7% of residents have finished Year 12, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 61.8% and has fallen by 28 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Willaura splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (27%) and Year 9 or below (27%), with Year 10 at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by just 8.6% of adults, which is far below the national figure of 26.3% and represents an 11 point drop since 2011.
8.6% ▼ -56.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 Willaura, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (26%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Willaura (L) are spread across various fields, with engineering at 12.0% and society and culture at 10.4% being the most common.
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 Willaura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222100/willaura/topic/education