62.4% ▲ +95.5%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 62.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Ocean Beach · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Ocean Beach
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Well above the state average, 62.4% of people in Ocean Beach (L) have completed Year 12. This is a highly educated area where both school completion and university degrees have climbed sharply over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion has jumped 30 points since 2011, with 62.4% of residents finishing Year 12. This is well above the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Ocean Beach, Year 12 is the majority at 68%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 28.5% of the population, a figure that rose 20 points since 2011. This is well above the Western Australian average of 23.8%.
28.5% ▲ +245.2%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Ocean Beach splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (34%) and Certificate III / IV (30%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in Health (15.1%), Education (14.5%), and Engineering and related fields (13.6%).
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 Ocean Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521039/ocean-beach/topic/education