32.7% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Brooklands · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Brooklands
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Few residents in Brooklands have completed high school or university, with only 5.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is much lower than most similar areas and falls far below the national figure. The community relies more on practical certificates and shorter courses of study.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 32.7% of people here finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. Roughly 27.4% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Brooklands, the largest group is Year 12 at 39%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Typical qualifications are trade-based, with 34.7% of people holding a Certificate III or IV. This helps explain why university degrees are rare here, as the 5.4% rate is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
5.4% ▼ -19.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Brooklands, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 58%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are Society and Culture at 12.9% and Engineering at 12.2%, followed by Health and Education both at 9.5%.
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 places.
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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 Brooklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30388/brooklands/topic/education