30.8% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Taroom · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Taroom
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Far fewer people in Taroom have finished high school or earned a university degree compared to most similar areas. Just 30.8% of residents completed Year 12, a figure that has fallen since 2011. This trend is mirrored in higher education, where university degrees are far less common than across Queensland and Australia.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 30.8% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8% and down 8.3 points since 2011. About 30.6% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 21.4% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →Taroom splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (35%) and Year 10 (34%), with Year 9 or below at 24%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are uncommon here, with only 8.5% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher, far below the Queensland figure of 21.9%. Trade qualifications are more typical, with 36.7% of the community holding a Certificate III or IV.
8.5% ▼ -37.3%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 8.5%
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 Taroom, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 27%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications have studied a variety of fields, most commonly engineering and related subjects at 15.2%, followed by health at 11.9% and food, hospitality and personal services at 10.5%.
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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321100/taroom/topic/education