20.9% ▼ -45.6%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 52.5%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Sapphire · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Sapphire
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 38 percentage points separates Sapphire from the national figure for Year 12 completions. This is an area where fewer residents have finished high school or earned university degrees compared to the rest of the country. In 2021, only about one in five people here had completed Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates fell 17 points since 2011 to just 20.9%, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. More than half of residents left school in Year 10 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Sapphire, the largest group is Year 10 at 38%, followed by Year 9 or below (26%) and Year 12 (26%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up only 5.7% of the population, far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 33% of residents.
5.7% ▼ -22.2%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Sapphire, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 61%; Advanced diploma / diploma is next at 15%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Among those with qualifications, the most common fields of study are engineering and related subjects at 15.4%, followed by management and commerce at 12.3%.
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 Sapphire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321091/sapphire/topic/education