36.1% ▲ +14.3%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Allanson · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Allanson
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More than a third of Allanson residents hold qualifications in engineering and related fields. This is a small community where a high number of adults have not finished Year 12, though the proportion of people completing school has risen since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 36.1% of people have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. Year 10 is the most common highest year of school reached, at 38.6%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Allanson splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (41%) and Year 12 (39%), with Year 11 at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is less common here than in most areas, with just 9.1% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Western Australian figure of 23.8%.
9.1% ▲ +34.6%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Allanson, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 60%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering is the most common field of study at 34.8%, followed by education at 12.4% and management and commerce at 11.6%.
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 Allanson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521001/allanson/topic/education