37.4% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Mungar · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Mungar
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common achievement in Mungar, where 40.3% of adults hold one. This is an area where fewer people have finished high school or university compared to the rest of the state, with only 9.4% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.4% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1% and the national figure of 58.8%. Roughly a third of the population finished Year 10, and 15.5% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Mungar splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The typical qualification level is far below most areas, with only 9.4% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher. This is 17 percentage points lower than the Australian average.
9.4% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Mungar, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Mungar most commonly studied engineering and related fields (18.2%), followed by management and commerce at 14.9% and education at 11%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
The area has a much higher number of schools per 1,000 children than most areas, though the average school size is much smaller at 55 students. There is one government primary school within 3km.
18.18
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools per 1,000 children aged under 15.
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).
55
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
923
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Mungar
1 school — 55 students, average ICSEA 923.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Mungar State School, Mungar | Government | Primary | 0.6 km | 55 | 923 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Mungar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32073/mungar/topic/education