35.0% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Epsom · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Epsom
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower proportion of residents in Epsom have finished high school compared to the rest of the country. Only 35% of people here completed Year 12, which is 24 points below the national figure. This gap defines the local education profile, where higher qualifications are also less common than in Queensland or Australia-wide.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35% of residents finished Year 12, a figure far below the Queensland rate of 57.1%. In contrast, 15% of the population had Year 9 or below as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Epsom, Year 12 is the majority at 70%; Year 9 or below is next at 30%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 15% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the Queensland average of 21.9% and far below the national figure of 26.3%.
15.0% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Epsom, Bachelor degree is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Natural & physical sciences at 0%, ahead of Information technology (0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is smaller than about 59% of similar areas.
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).
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Epsom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30980/epsom/topic/education