37.8% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.2%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Toogoom · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Toogoom
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Toogoom have finished high school or university compared to the state and national averages. Only 37.8% of residents completed Year 12, a figure that has fallen by 9.4 percentage points since 2011. This creates a significant gap in educational attainment for the area.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.8% of residents have finished Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. About 35.1% of people stopped their schooling at Year 10, while 11.8% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Toogoom splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 11.2% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 43.7% of residents.
11.2% ▲ +0.9%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Toogoom, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Toogoom most commonly studied Engineering and related fields (17.7%) or Management and commerce (15.2%). Other common areas of study include Society and culture at 12.4% and Health at 11.9%.
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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315094/toogoom/topic/education