48.2% ▲ +62.1%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Paradise · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Paradise
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 48.2% of residents in Paradise finished Year 12, a figure that is far below the national average. While this is slightly above the Tasmanian figure, the area sees fewer people completing high school than most of Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Nearly half of the population finished Year 12, which is around the middle for similar areas. However, 32.1% of residents stopped at Year 10, and 9.8% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Paradise, Year 12 is the majority at 51%; Year 10 is next at 34%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The 18.3% of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below both the state and national figures. The most common qualification is an advanced diploma or diploma, held by 34.2% of residents.
18.3% ▲ +130.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 Paradise, the largest group is Advanced diploma / diploma at 39%, followed by Bachelor degree (28%) and Certificate III / IV (22%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are most often in engineering and related fields at 19.0%, followed by society and culture at 16.5% and health at 12.7%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number of facilities than about 59% of similar areas.
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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 Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60488/paradise/topic/education