City of Melbourne

Local workers - Qualifications - All industries

In the City of Melbourne, the workforce has a higher proportion with University qualifications compared to Victoria.

Qualification levels help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of local workers in a particular industry.

The level of qualifications in a workforce relate to a number of factors including:

  • The age of the workforce;
  • The skill and qualification level required to enter an industry;
  • The professional or working ambitions of people (to seek education as youth or retraining as adults);
  • The opportunities afforded to people to continue studying beyond compulsory schooling.

Educational Qualification statistics should be looked at in conjunction with Field of qualification and Occupations data for a full education analysis for the City of Melbourne.

Data source

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work

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Local workers qualifications
City of Melbourne - All industries 20212016Change
Qualification levelNumber%. VictoriaNumber%. Victoria2016 - 2021
Bachelor or Higher degree329,16665.439.0248,24056.833.3+80,926
Advanced Diploma or Diploma48,9049.711.546,74510.711.5+2,159
Certificate I and II Level2,5300.51.02,5260.61.0+4
Certificate III & IV Level34,9216.917.135,0028.018.1-81
Certificate Level, nfd5,4781.11.55,7181.31.8-240
No qualification73,10214.527.889,06020.431.6-15,958
Inadequately described or not stated8,9521.82.29,4562.22.8-504
Total Persons503,053100.0100.0436,747100.0100.0+66,306

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions)

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Dominant groups

Analysis of the qualifications of the in the City of Melbourne in 2021 compared to Victoria shows that there was a higher proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a lower proportion with no formal qualifications.

Overall, 83.7% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 14.5% had no qualifications, compared with 70.1% and 27.8% respectively for Victoria.

The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Melbourne and Victoria were:

  • A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (65.4% compared to 39.0%)
  • A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (14.5% compared to 27.8%)
  • A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (6.9% compared to 17.1%)
  • A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (9.7% compared to 11.5%)

Emerging groups

The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Melbourne between 2016 and 2021 were:

  • Bachelor or Higher degree (+80,926 local workers)
  • No qualification (-15,958 local workers)
  • Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+2,159 local workers)
  • Certificate Level, nfd (-240 local workers)

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