37.2% ▲ +46.9%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 72.1%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Sharon · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Sharon
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Practical skills and trades drive the local workforce in Sharon (L), where a high proportion of adults hold vocational certificates. While university degrees are much less common than the national figure, more people have finished high school here than they did a decade ago.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.2% of residents have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. However, this is an improvement for the area, with the rate rising 12 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →Sharon splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 10 (36%), with Year 9 or below at 14%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Vocational training is very common, with 45.5% of adults holding a Certificate III or IV. In contrast, only 10% have a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the Queensland average of 21.9%.
10.0% ▲ +16.2%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Sharon, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 56%; Bachelor degree is next at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are engineering and related subjects at 22.6%, followed by management and commerce at 13.1%.
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 Sharon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321093/sharon/topic/education