42.8% ▲ +7.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 42.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Stony Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Stony Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents in Stony Creek have finished high school or earned a degree compared to most similar areas. Only 42.8% of people completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 42.8%, which is far below both Queensland and Australia. About 29.4% of residents finished Year 10, while 10.8% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Stony Creek, the largest group is Year 12 at 49%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (12%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is less common here, with only 11.9% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the Queensland average, while Certificate III or IV is the most typical qualification at 35.8%.
11.9% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
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 Stony Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (23%) and Bachelor degree (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications most often studied Education at 13.8%, followed by Engineering and related fields at 11.9% and Management and commerce at 9.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Stony Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32673/stony-creek/topic/education