56.9% ▲ +13.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 54.3%
- 2021: 56.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Oak Beach · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Oak Beach
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A high proportion of university-educated adults live in Oak Beach, where 31.1% hold a bachelor degree or higher. This level of higher education is well above the figures for both Queensland and Australia. The area is characterized by a highly qualified population despite having no local schools.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 56.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the Queensland figure and just a little below the national average.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Oak Beach, Year 12 is the majority at 64%; Year 10 is next at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The typical resident is well-qualified, with 31.1% holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well above the 21.9% seen across Queensland and the 26.3% national average.
31.1% ▲ +90.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 31.1%
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 Oak Beach, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 34%, followed by Certificate III / IV (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (24%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are spread across several fields, with the most common being society and culture at 14%, followed by management and commerce at 12.4% and engineering at 11.6%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar areas in this regard.
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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).
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Oak Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32205/oak-beach/topic/education