44.2% ▲ +43.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Felton · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Felton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents in Felton have completed secondary school or university compared to the wider region. Only 44.2% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This trend continues into higher education, where university degrees are much less common than in most of Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 44.2%, a figure far below the Queensland average of 57.1%. For those who did not finish high school, 26.7% reached Year 10 and 13.4% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Felton, the largest group is Year 12 at 47%, followed by Year 10 (28%) and Year 9 or below (14%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 13.2% of the population, which is well below the state figure. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 28.6% of residents.
13.2% ▲ +96.3%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Felton, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 36%, followed by Bachelor degree (27%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (24%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Felton are most often in Agriculture and Environment (19.6%) or Management and Commerce (17.9%). Engineering, Health, and Education each account for 8.9% of degrees and certificates.
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Felton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31026/felton/topic/education