30.1% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Monto · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Monto
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than a third of people in Monto have finished Year 12, reflecting a local workforce with a lower level of formal schooling than the national average. While only 9.8% of adults hold a university degree, the community has seen more people gain these higher qualifications since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Just 30.1% of residents completed Year 12, a figure that is far below the Queensland average of 57.1% and has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011. The most common highest year of school reached is Year 10, at 31.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Monto splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (35%) and Year 12 (34%), with Year 9 or below at 25%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 9.8% of the population, which is far below the Australian figure of 26.3%. However, this has risen by 3.4 percentage points over the last decade, with Certificate III or IV being the most common qualification at 37.5%.
9.8% ▲ +52.9%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.8%
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 Monto, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Monto are spread across several fields, with Engineering and related studies being the most common at 12.9%, followed by Education at 11.3% and Management and commerce at 10.2%.
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 Monto [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315065/monto/topic/education