63.3% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 56.7%
- 2021: 63.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Budgee · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Budgee
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A strong school completion rate marks Budgee, where 63.3% of residents finished Year 12. This is well above both the Queensland and national figures. While school finishing rates are high, a smaller proportion of adults hold university degrees compared to the rest of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 63.3% of people completed Year 12, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is well above the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the Australian average of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Budgee, Year 12 is the majority at 76%; Year 11 is next at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in the wider region. Only 16.7% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
16.7% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Budgee, the largest group is Postgraduate degree at 38%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (31%) and Certificate III / IV (31%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Budgee are spread across several fields. The most common are society and culture at 20%, followed by natural and physical sciences at 16%.
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.
0
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Budgee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30409/budgee/topic/education