67.1% ▲ +488.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 67.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rottnest Island · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Rottnest Island
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher levels of schooling and degrees are much more common on Rottnest Island than in most similar areas. Since 2011, the proportion of residents completing Year 12 has jumped by 56 percentage points to 67.1%. This shift has coincided with a sharp rise in university qualifications among adults.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Schooling levels are well above the national figure, with 67.1% of people completing Year 12. This is 8.3 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rottnest Island, Year 12 is the majority at 72%; Year 10 is next at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 24.8% of the population, a figure that has risen 21 percentage points since 2011. This is much higher than most areas, though it sits a little below the national rate of 26.3%.
24.8% ▲ +630.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Rottnest Island splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (33%) and Certificate III / IV (32%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 26%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in management and commerce at 22%, followed closely by food, hospitality and personal services at 21.1%.
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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522057/rottnest-island/topic/education