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Moving to Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek from Delacombe

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek and Delacombe, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Delacombe
VIC · current home
Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
15,255
15,749
Annual growth
+7.3%
+9.6%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,627/wk
$2,201/wk
Overseas born
11.0%
14.6%
Non-English-speaking background
8.0%
7.9%
Children aged 0–14
21.3%
23.3%
SEIFA advantage ABS SEIFA 2021
IRSAD decile (1 = most disadvantaged, 10 = most advantaged) A relative socio-economic index - not a measure of safety or community quality.
Decile 3
Decile 8
IRSAD score
947
1,064
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
2
4
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
970
1,055
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,029
1,070
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
7
14
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$623,000
$680,000
House price YoY
+21.9%
+4.5%
Median 3-bed house rent /wk A blank means rent was suppressed for this area (too few lettings to publish a reliable median) - not that rent is unavailable there.
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-
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak
88 min
72 min
GPs nearby
2
0
Supermarkets nearby
1
1
Parks nearby
40
32
Train stations
0
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
458
124
Change vs prior year
-11%
+2%

Sources: ABS ERP June 2025 · ABS Census 2021 · ABS SEIFA 2021 · ACARA School Profile 2025 · ACECQA NQS register · Valuer-General Victoria & DFFH (VIC) · DCJ Housing (NSW) · NSW BOCSAR (NSW) · CSA Victoria (VIC). How we source this data →

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From · Delacombe
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Delacombe Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Delacombe.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 641
ICSEA 970
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Delacombe (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Lumen Christi School
Catholic 324 students
ICSEA 1029 intake context

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To · Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Armstrong Creek School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek.

Sector Government
Years U, Prep-6
Students 905
ICSEA 1023
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School
Catholic 504 students
ICSEA 1070 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

Honest tradeoff

Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,055, compared to 970 in Delacombe. ICSEA reflects the socioeconomic intake of students, not teaching quality - it is not a ranking of school performance.

Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment - average ICSEA Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek 1,070 (1 school), Delacombe 1,029 (1 school).

There are 4 schools in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek, compared to 2 in Delacombe.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 14 in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek vs 7 in Delacombe.

Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 8, above Delacombe's Decile 3. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 9% higher in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek ($680,000 vs $623,000).

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SEIFA IRSAD Decile 9 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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