23.3% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 45.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Kambalda East · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Kambalda East
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III and IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Kambalda East. This area has very low levels of formal schooling and university degrees compared to the rest of the state and country. The typical resident is less likely to have finished high school than people in most other similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 23.3% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 58.0%. This result is among the lowest at this level and has fallen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Kambalda East splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (38%) and Year 12 (37%), with Year 11 at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are rare here, with only 3.3% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the national figure of 26.3% and represents a drop of 6.9 percentage points since 2011.
3.3% ▼ -67.4%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Kambalda East, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 69%; Bachelor degree is next at 10%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, Engineering and related fields are the most common at 15.7%. Management and commerce follow at 8.3%, while society and culture accounts for 4.5%.
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 Kambalda East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521027/kambalda-east/topic/education