57.5% ▲ +74.5%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 57.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Highfields · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Highfields
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A massive 25 percentage point jump in Year 12 completions since 2011 highlights a rapid educational shift in Highfields. More than half of the community has now finished high school, with a growing number of residents holding higher degrees.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion has risen to 57.5%, a figure that is among the highest for similar areas and sits just above the Queensland average. This is a significant increase from 33% in 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Highfields, Year 12 is the majority at 60%; Year 10 is next at 27%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 23.3% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This group has grown by 15 percentage points over the last decade.
23.3% ▲ +179.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 23.3%
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 Highfields, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 36%, followed by Bachelor degree (28%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are management and commerce at 19.4%, followed by engineering at 16.4% and health at 13.5%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Highfields
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313007/highfields/topic/education