37.5% ▲ +13.4%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Charters Towers · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Charters Towers
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Charters Towers sits around the middle of similar areas for education and qualifications. Only 37.5% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. While university degrees are less common here than elsewhere, more people have finished high school now than in 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. This is an improvement on 2011, though 25.9% of residents still list Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Charters Towers, the largest group is Year 12 at 44%, followed by Year 10 (31%) and Year 9 or below (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.9% of the population, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. Trade qualifications are more common, with 32.7% of people holding a Certificate III or IV.
10.9% ▲ +26.0%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Charters Towers, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (22%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (15%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 14.0%, followed by Education at 13.0% and Health at 9.7%.
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 Charters Towers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314007/charters-towers/topic/education