31.9% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
St Marys · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in St Marys
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer people in St Marys (L) have completed high school or university since 2011. Only 31.9% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates fell 12 points since 2011. Currently, 35% of people stopped at Year 10, while 14.8% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →St Marys splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (39%) and Year 12 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher fell 7.3 points since 2011 to 12.6%, a figure well below the Tasmanian average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 39.2% of residents.
12.6% ▼ -36.7%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
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 St Marys, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 17.1%, followed by society and culture at 15.4% and health at 12.1%.
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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622023/st-marys/topic/education