35.7% —
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Devonport · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Devonport
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents have finished high school than in the typical Australian town, with Devonport's Year 12 completion rate sitting at 35.7%. This trend extends to higher education, where the share of adults with a university degree is well below the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35.7% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the 58.8% national figure. About 35.2% of residents finished Year 10, while 13.2% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Devonport splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (38%) and Year 10 (38%), with Year 9 or below at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A university degree or higher is held by 12.9% of adults, a figure well below the Tasmania average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 39% of the population.
12.9% —
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
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 Devonport, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (20%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 16.3%, followed by engineering at 14.2% and society and culture at 14%.
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 Devonport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL612002/devonport/topic/education