40.6% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Warwick · Urban Area
Education & Qualifications in Warwick
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Just 40.6% of residents in Warwick finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This gap in school completion is a defining feature of the area's educational profile. Across the board, school and university qualification levels here sit well below those seen in most other Australian areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates are far below the Queensland average of 57.1% and have barely changed since 2011. About 29.9% of people stopped their schooling at Year 10, while 13.6% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Warwick, the largest group is Year 12 at 45%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 11% of the population, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. This has fallen since 2011, while the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 39.7% of residents.
11.0% ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Warwick, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study for those with qualifications are management and commerce at 14.8%, followed closely by engineering and related fields at 14.4%.
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 Warwick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3018/warwick/topic/education