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Moving to Bendigo Surrounds - South from Fraser Rise - Plumpton

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Bendigo Surrounds - South and Fraser Rise - Plumpton, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Fraser Rise - Plumpton
VIC · current home
Bendigo Surrounds - South
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
24,739
9,094
Annual growth
+19.7%
+1.7%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,254/wk
$2,040/wk
Overseas born
42.2%
6.8%
Non-English-speaking background
52.9%
2.4%
Children aged 0–14
27.6%
20.7%
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 7
Decile 7
IRSAD score
1,035
1,025
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
2
4
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,031
1,012
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
6
6
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$700,000
$673,800
House price YoY
+2.6%
+5.3%
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
32 min
116 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
1
0
Parks nearby
80
1
Train stations
0
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
548
-
Change vs prior year
+2%
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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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The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.

From · Fraser Rise - Plumpton
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Deanside Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 590
ICSEA 1044
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

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

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To · Bendigo Surrounds - South
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Kangaroo Flat Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Bendigo Surrounds - South.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 313
ICSEA 908
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

The government catchment school for parts of Bendigo Surrounds - South is Kangaroo Flat Primary School - just outside the suburb boundary (VIC catchment data).

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Honest tradeoff

Bendigo Surrounds - South's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,012, compared to 1,031 in Fraser Rise - Plumpton. ICSEA reflects the socioeconomic intake of students, not teaching quality - it is not a ranking of school performance.

There are 4 schools in Bendigo Surrounds - South, compared to 2 in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Bendigo Surrounds - South at 2.4% (vs 52.9% in Fraser Rise - Plumpton).

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