36.0% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 49.5%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Oakey · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Oakey
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 5.6% of adults in Oakey hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a community where formal university qualifications are rare, and school completion rates have fallen significantly over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Far fewer people in Oakey finished Year 12 compared to the rest of Australia, with only 36% doing so. This rate has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Oakey, the largest group is Year 12 at 39%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (20%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a university degree fell 13 points since 2011 to just 5.6%, which is much lower than most areas. Instead, trade certificates are the most common qualification, held by 46.6% of the population.
5.6% ▼ -69.4%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Oakey, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 61%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Oakey are most often in engineering and related fields at 18.2%, followed by management and commerce at 14.5%. Other common areas of study include society and culture and health.
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 Oakey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315076/oakey/topic/education