31.9% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 59.1%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Coolup · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Coolup
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 1.8% of adults in Coolup hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average. This represents a sharp drop from 2011 and marks the area as having some of the lowest levels of higher education in the region.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
High school completion is low here, with only 31.9% of people finishing Year 12. This is far below the Western Australian figure of 58% and has fallen by 6.9 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Coolup splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (35%) and Year 10 (32%), with Year 11 at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Trade certificates are the most common qualification, held by 58.6% of residents. Very few people have university degrees, leaving the area far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
1.8% ▼ -84.1%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Coolup, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 77%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, Engineering and related fields are the most common at 35.7%, followed by Health at 18.6% and Management and commerce at 12.9%.
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 Coolup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522014/coolup/topic/education