23.9% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Nebo · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Nebo
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 23.9% of people in Nebo finished Year 12, a rate far below the national figure. This lack of senior schooling is part of a wider pattern in the area, where university degrees and high school completions are both much lower than in the rest of the state.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is among the lowest for similar areas, falling to 23.9% since 2011. This is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%.
Highest year of school
View on map →Nebo splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (37%), with Year 9 or below at 12%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Bachelor degrees are rare here, with just 4.3% of adults holding one, which is far below the national average of 26.3%. Instead, the most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 27.3% of residents.
4.3% ▼ -17.9%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Nebo, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 69%; Bachelor degree is next at 12%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common area of study at 15.0%, followed by management and commerce at 9.0%.
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 Nebo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321077/nebo/topic/education