35.6% ▲ +60.9%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Apple Tree Creek · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Apple Tree Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
More people in Apple Tree Creek have finished high school than a decade ago. While school completion rose by 13 percentage points since 2011, the area still has far fewer residents with higher degrees than the state or national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35.6% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. Around 29.1% of people in the area stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Apple Tree Creek, the largest group is Year 12 at 41%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (17%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common, held by 43.9% of adults. Only 7.1% have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the Queensland average of 21.9%.
7.1% ▲ +22.2%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Apple Tree Creek, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 67%; Bachelor degree is next at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common area of study at 17.2%, followed by society and culture at 14.0%.
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 Apple Tree Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321003/apple-tree-creek/topic/education