33.8% ▼ -25.4%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.3%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Southern Cross · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Southern Cross
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common credential in Southern Cross (L), held by 37.9% of people. The area has far fewer residents with high school or university degrees compared to the rest of the state and country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 33.8% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This result has fallen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Southern Cross splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (38%) and Year 10 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees or higher are held by only 8.4% of adults, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 23.8% and barely changed since 2011.
8.4% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Southern Cross, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Engineering (16.9%) and Management and Commerce (12.8%), followed by Health and Food services at 8.2% each.
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 Southern Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521047/southern-cross/topic/education