32.1% —
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wynyard · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Wynyard
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 32.1% of residents in Wynyard have finished Year 12, a figure far below the national average. This gap in secondary schooling is a key feature of the local education profile, which sees a much higher proportion of people finishing school at Year 10.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the Tasmanian figure of 47.1% and the national average of 58.8%. The most common highest year of school completed here is Year 10, at 35.9%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wynyard splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (39%) and Year 12 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 11.9% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 39.7% of residents.
11.9% —
Higher than 53% 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 Wynyard, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 50%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Engineering and related subjects at 15.8%, followed by Management and commerce at 13.6%.
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 Wynyard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL614003/wynyard/topic/education