37.3% ▲ +27.3%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Loxton · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Loxton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Forty per cent of qualified adults in Loxton hold a Certificate III or IV, the most common qualification in the area. While more people have finished school and university since 2011, overall education levels remain much lower than the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.3% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the Australian figure of 58.8%. This is an improvement from 2011, when the rate was 29.3%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Loxton, the largest group is Year 12 at 40%, followed by Year 11 (22%) and Year 10 (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.7% of the population, a figure far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. This represents a slight increase from 9.0% in 2011.
10.7% ▲ +19.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.7%
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 Loxton, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Health both appearing as the most common at 13.0% each, followed closely by Society and Culture at 12.9%.
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 Loxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415021/loxton/topic/education