37.8% ▲ +49.2%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Theodore · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Theodore
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 21 percentage points separates the proportion of people in Theodore who finished Year 12 from the national figure. While education levels have climbed over the last decade, this small locality remains far below state and national benchmarks for both school and university completion.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 37.8% of residents completed Year 12, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. This is an improvement however, as the rate rose 12 points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Theodore, the largest group is Year 12 at 43%, followed by Year 10 (32%) and Year 9 or below (19%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 10.1% of the population, far below the national figure of 26.3%. The most common qualification is a Certificate III or IV, held by 42.6% of residents.
10.1% ▲ +212.5%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 Theodore, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 61%; Bachelor degree is next at 23%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Theodore are most often in engineering and related fields at 23.6%, followed by education at 9.7% and society and culture at 8.7%.
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 Theodore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322120/theodore/topic/education