29.2% ▲ +47.2%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Swansea · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Swansea
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in Swansea (L) finished high school than in most areas, but university degrees are becoming more common. While only 29.2% of residents completed Year 12, the number of adults with a bachelor degree or higher rose by 10 percentage points since 2011 to reach 13.4%. This mix of vocational and higher learning shapes the local skill set.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is far below the Tasmanian figure of 47.1% and the Australian figure of 58.8%. However, this rate rose by 9.4 percentage points since 2011, with Year 10 being the most common highest year of school at 37.4%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Swansea, the largest group is Year 10 at 40%, followed by Year 12 (32%) and Year 9 or below (21%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 13.4% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the state's 21.9%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 34.3% of residents.
13.4% ▲ +349.2%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Swansea, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 42%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (23%) and Bachelor degree (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
People with qualifications in this area are most likely to have studied management and commerce (16.3%) or engineering (14.0%). Other common fields include health (11.4%), architecture and building (10.3%), and education (8.9%).
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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621030/swansea/topic/education