30.8% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Eureka · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Eureka
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common high-level achievement in Eureka, held by 41.1% of adults. This is an area where formal schooling levels are much lower than most other places, with only 30.8% of residents finishing Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer people in Eureka finished high school compared to the wider region, with only 30.8% completing Year 12. This is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the national rate of 58.8%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Eureka splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (38%) and Year 12 (37%), with Year 11 at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here than in most areas, as only 10.3% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
10.3% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 10.3%
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 Eureka, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 58%; Bachelor degree is next at 25%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, 21.1% studied engineering and related fields, while health and society and culture both account for 10.5%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number of facilities 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Eureka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31001/eureka/topic/education