45.9% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Seventeen Seventy · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Seventeen Seventy
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Engineering and related fields make up the biggest slice of qualifications in Seventeen Seventy (L), where 21.7% of qualified residents studied this area. While many people here have not finished high school, the number of adults with university degrees has jumped significantly since 2011.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Less than half of residents (45.9%) have completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure. However, this is an improvement from 2011, when the rate was 38.7%.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Seventeen Seventy, Year 12 is the majority at 52%; Year 10 is next at 39%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher now make up 17.1% of the population, a rise of 14 points since 2011. Despite this growth, the figure remains well below both the Queensland and Australian averages.
17.1% ▲ +430.6%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Seventeen Seventy splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (33%) and Bachelor degree (31%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Those with qualifications in Seventeen Seventy (L) are most likely to have studied engineering (21.7%) or education (17.4%), followed by health at 13%. Management and commerce accounts for another 10.1%.
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 Seventeen Seventy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322107/seventeen-seventy/topic/education