27.6% ▲ +18.2%
Lower than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Wujal Wujal · Council (LGA)
Education & Qualifications in Wujal Wujal
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of over 30 percentage points separates Wujal Wujal from the national figure for Year 12 completions. Only 27.6% of residents have finished high school, and just 2% of adults hold a university degree. While school completion has risen slightly since 2011, educational attainment remains much lower than in most other areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 27.6% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. This is among the lowest levels for this qualification in the region, although the rate rose 4.3 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Wujal Wujal splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (30%) and Year 10 (28%), with Year 9 or below at 22%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up just 2.0% of the population, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 46% of residents.
2.0% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Wujal Wujal, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Certificate I / II is next at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
For those with qualifications, the most common fields are management and commerce at 15%, followed by health at 13%.
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 Wujal Wujal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37570/wujal-wujal/topic/education