33.8% ▼ -44.5%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 60.9%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Springsure · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Springsure
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Springsure (L) sits around the middle of similar areas for university degrees, though overall schooling rates are much lower than most. Only 33.8% of people have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. This figure has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion rates fell 27 percentage points since 2011 to 33.8%, leaving the area far below Queensland's 57.1%. Roughly 29% of residents finished Year 10, while 16% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Springsure, the largest group is Year 12 at 39%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The share of adults with a bachelor degree or higher fell 13 points since 2011 to 11.1%, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 36.4% of residents.
11.1% ▼ -54.8%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
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 Springsure, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 52%; Bachelor degree is next at 24%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Engineering and related fields are the most common qualifications at 21.2%. Other notable areas of study include management and commerce at 12.5%, followed by health, education, and society and culture at 8.4% each.
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 Springsure [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321096/springsure/topic/education