48.2% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.5%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Gladstone · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Gladstone
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Practical skills and trade certificates shape the workforce in Gladstone, where 44.5% of qualified adults hold a Certificate III or IV. While university degrees are less common than the national figure, more people have completed Year 12 now than in 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Fewer people have finished high school here than in the rest of Australia, though the 48.2% who completed Year 12 is a rise of 6.7 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Gladstone, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 10 is next at 28%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 13.2% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 26.3%.
13.2% ▲ +22.8%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Gladstone, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications are heavily weighted toward technical and business roles, with 25.9% of people studying engineering and related fields and 15.9% in management and commerce.
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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL312002/gladstone/topic/education