13.6% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Laura · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Laura
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
One third of residents in Laura reached Year 10 as their highest level of schooling. This is a community with very low formal qualification rates, where only 13.6% of people finished Year 12.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 13.6% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1% and fell 4.2 points since 2011. Year 10 is the most common final school year, reached by 33.3% of residents.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Laura, the largest group is Year 10 at 49%, followed by Year 12 (20%) and Year 9 or below (16%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in the area hold a bachelor degree or higher, a figure far below the 26.3% national average. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 23.1% of the population.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Laura, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Laura are most often trained in health or architecture and building, with each field accounting for 7.7% of the total.
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 Laura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322071/laura/topic/education