19.2% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Warburton · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Warburton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in Warburton have finished high school than in 2011, though more adults have now earned university degrees. Only 19.2% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. While university qualifications have increased, the area still sees much lower school completion rates than most other parts of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion is very low here, with only 19.2% of people finishing Year 12, a figure that fell 5.9 percentage points since 2011. Most residents left school early, with 31.1% finishing Year 9 or below and 29.4% reaching Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Warburton splits fairly evenly between Year 9 or below (34%) and Year 10 (32%), with Year 12 at 21%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher rose to 8.1% since 2011, though this remains far below the Western Australian figure of 23.8%. Of those with a qualification, the most common are bachelor degrees at 20.4% and Certificate III or IV at 18.4%.
8.1% ▲ +93.9%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Warburton splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (35%) and Certificate III / IV (32%), with Postgraduate degree at 13%.
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in Warburton most often studied Education (13.6%) or Engineering and related fields (11.7%). Other common areas of study include Society and Culture at 8.7% and Health at 4.9%.
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 Warburton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521049/warburton/topic/education