38.3% ▲ +70.3%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Tolga · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Tolga
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Nearly 43% of qualified adults in Tolga hold a Certificate III or IV, making trade-level certificates the most common qualification. While university degrees are far less common here than in the rest of the country, school completion rates have climbed significantly over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 38.3% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. However, this is a notable improvement from 2011, when only 22.5% had completed their final year of school.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Tolga, the largest group is Year 12 at 42%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 9.6% of adults, a figure far below the Queensland average of 21.9%. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011, increasing by 3.6 percentage points.
9.6% ▲ +58.7%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Tolga, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 56%; Bachelor degree is next at 20%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common areas of study are Engineering and related fields at 18.3%, followed by Management and commerce at 13.7% and Health at 10%.
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 Tolga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321106/tolga/topic/education