48.0% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Rockhampton · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Rockhampton
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of residents in Rockhampton finished Year 12, at just 48.0%. This is far below the national figure and shows a significant gap in school completion compared to the rest of the country.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 48.0% of people completed Year 12, which is well below the Queensland rate of 57.1%, though this has risen 1.3 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Rockhampton, Year 12 is the majority at 53%; Year 10 is next at 28%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 14.4% of the population, a figure far below the Australian average of 26.3% and barely changed since 2011.
14.4% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 Rockhampton, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 48%, followed by Bachelor degree (23%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in Engineering and related fields at 17.9%, followed by Management and commerce at 14.5%.
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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3014/rockhampton/topic/education