57.9% ▲ +56.5%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 50.2%
- 2021: 57.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Thursday Island · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Thursday Island
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Higher school completion rates than most similar areas mark Thursday Island as a place of growing achievement. A significant 57.9% of residents have finished Year 12, a figure that has climbed steeply over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
School completion has surged 21 percentage points since 2011, meaning 57.9% of people have now finished Year 12. This is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Thursday Island, Year 12 is the majority at 65%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 16.1% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure. This proportion has risen by 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
16.1% ▲ +68.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 Thursday Island, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 41%, followed by Bachelor degree (24%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (16%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in Health at 15.0% and Management and commerce at 13.3%. Society and culture accounts for 11.1%, while Engineering and Education each sit 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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315091/thursday-island/topic/education