32.0% ▲ +3.2%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 69.1%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Russell Island · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Russell Island
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Slightly more people on Russell Island have completed school and university since 2011. While these numbers have rose, the area still has far fewer people with high-level qualifications than the state or national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 32% of residents have finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. The most common highest year of school completed is Year 10 at 32.3%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Russell Island splits fairly evenly between Year 10 (36%) and Year 12 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 18%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 9.5% of the population, a figure far below the Australian average of 26.3%. Trade certificates are the most common qualification, held by 39.1% of residents.
9.5% ▲ +10.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Russell Island, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 54%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 21%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Of those with a qualification, 15.5% studied engineering and related fields, while 13.1% studied society and culture.
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 Russell Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315086/russell-island/topic/education