37.6% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Middlemount · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Middlemount
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A far lower share of residents have finished high school compared to the state or nation, which is the main story for Middlemount. Only 37.6% of people here completed Year 12, and the number of adults with a university degree is also much lower than the national figure.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, where 58.8% finish. This figure has fallen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011, leaving just 37.6% of residents with a Year 12 qualification.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Middlemount, Year 12 is the majority at 64%; Year 10 is next at 23%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is rare in the area, with only 9.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the Queensland figure of 21.9%, while Certificate III or IV qualifications are more common at 23.9%.
9.4% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Middlemount, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Bachelor degree is next at 22%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common areas of study for those with qualifications, making up 17.8% of the total. Management and commerce follow at 8.6%.
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 Middlemount [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315061/middlemount/topic/education