34.1% ▲ +19.3%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Amity · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Amity
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly 40% of adults in Amity hold a Certificate III or IV, the most common qualification in the area. While many residents have vocational training, the community has far fewer people finishing high school and university compared to the rest of the state and country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 34.1% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. This is much lower than most similar areas, with 32.1% of people instead finishing at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →Amity splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 13% of adults, which is far below the Australian figure of 26.3%. This puts the area around the middle for its level, though it remains well below the Queensland average.
13.0% ▲ +55.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 Amity, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 51%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Engineering at 17.6%, followed by Education at 11.8% and Architecture and building at 10.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar areas.
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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Amity [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30057/amity/topic/education