53.5% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 59.7%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Airlie Beach - Cannonvale · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Airlie Beach - Cannonvale
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 10 percentage points separates Airlie Beach - Cannonvale from the national figure for bachelor degrees. While many residents have completed their schooling, the area has a much lower share of university-qualified adults than most of Australia. This profile shows a workforce more heavily skewed towards vocational certificates and practical qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just over half of the population, 53.5%, finished Year 12, which is much higher than in most similar areas. However, this is well below the Queensland and Australian figures, and the rate has fallen by 2.0 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Airlie Beach - Cannonvale, Year 12 is the majority at 62%; Year 10 is next at 22%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Only 16.2% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure that is far below the national average and has dropped by 4.5 points since 2011. Instead, the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 32.3% of residents.
16.2% ▼ -21.7%
Higher than 58% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 16.2%
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 Airlie Beach - Cannonvale, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 44%, followed by Bachelor degree (25%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with management and commerce leading at 15.8%, followed closely by engineering at 15.4%. Another 10.1% of qualified residents studied food, hospitality and personal services.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Airlie Beach - Cannonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3001/airlie-beach-cannonvale/topic/education