Hilltops Council area
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
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 Hilltops Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Hilltops Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | NSW | Number | % | NSW | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,412 | 18.9 | 38.4 | 1,114 | 16.0 | 32.6 | +298 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 744 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 670 | 9.6 | 11.1 | +74 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 135 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 128 | 1.8 | 1.2 | +7 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,957 | 26.2 | 18.1 | 1,776 | 25.5 | 18.7 | +181 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 182 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 191 | 2.7 | 2.3 | -9 | ||
| No qualification | 2,817 | 37.8 | 27.0 | 2,818 | 40.5 | 31.1 | -1 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 210 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 263 | 3.8 | 2.9 | -53 | ||
| Total Persons | 7,457 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 6,960 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +497 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions) Please refer to specific data notes for more information | |||||||||
Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the in the Hilltops Council area in 2021 compared to NSW shows that there was a lower proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a higher proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 59.4% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 37.8% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for NSW.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Hilltops Council area and NSW were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (18.9% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (37.8% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.2% compared to 18.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.0% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Hilltops Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+298 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+181 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+74 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-9 local workers)