Blue Mountains City
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 Blue Mountains City.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Blue Mountains City - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 6,866 | 34.8 | 38.4 | 5,304 | 28.7 | 32.6 | +1,562 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 2,533 | 12.8 | 11.0 | 2,443 | 13.2 | 11.1 | +90 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 285 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 242 | 1.3 | 1.2 | +43 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 4,199 | 21.3 | 18.1 | 3,964 | 21.5 | 18.7 | +235 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 367 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 500 | 2.7 | 2.3 | -133 | ||
| No qualification | 5,099 | 25.8 | 27.0 | 5,561 | 30.1 | 31.1 | -462 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 386 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 444 | 2.4 | 2.9 | -58 | ||
| Total Persons | 19,735 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 18,458 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,277 | ||
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 Blue Mountains City in 2021 compared to New South Wales 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, 72.2% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 25.8% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for New South Wales.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Blue Mountains City and New South Wales were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (34.8% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (21.3% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.8% compared to 11.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (25.8% compared to 27.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Blue Mountains City between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+1,562 local workers)
- No qualification (-462 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+235 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-133 local workers)