53.9% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.5%
- 2016: 51.7%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Toowoomba · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Toowoomba
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of nearly 5 percentage points separates Toowoomba's university degree rate from the national figure, despite the city outperforming most similar areas. Toowoomba is seeing a steady rise in learning, with the share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher climbing 6.8 points since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
About 53.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This figure has risen 6.4 points since 2011, though it remains well below the state and national averages.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Toowoomba, Year 12 is the majority at 57%; Year 10 is next at 24%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 21.4%, which is about the same as the Queensland average. Most commonly, residents hold a Certificate III or IV, held by 31.4% of the population.
21.4% ▲ +46.8%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 21.4%
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 Toowoomba, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 37%, followed by Bachelor degree (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the city are spread across several key sectors, with Management and Commerce being the most common at 16.7%. Health and Engineering also feature strongly, representing 13.9% and 13.1% of qualifications respectively.
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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303002/toowoomba/topic/education