31.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Homestead · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than a third of people in Homestead finished Year 12, reflecting a community where formal schooling levels are very low. This is a small, sparsely populated area where the typical resident has a much lower level of education than people in the rest of the state.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.3% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the national average of 58.8%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
31.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Homestead, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (23%) and Year 9 or below (18%).
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in Homestead hold a bachelor degree or higher, a result that is far below both the state and national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Homestead, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Natural & physical sciences at 0%, ahead of Information technology (0%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one primary school in the area, though it is very small with an average of just 4 students.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
4
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
1 school — 4 students.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Homestead State School, Homestead | Government | Primary | 0.3 km | 4 | — |
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Homestead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31354/homestead/topic/education