Moving to Bendigo from Cranbourne South
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Bendigo and Cranbourne South, side by side - all from public government data.
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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 →
The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.
Government schools in Cranbourne South
Free government schools your child may attend. We couldn’t confirm the exact zone for this point, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.
A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.
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.
Camp Hill Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Bendigo.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Bendigo (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapFee-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.
Bendigo's government schools have an average ICSEA of 960, compared to 1,012 in Cranbourne South. 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 Bendigo 1,044 (6 schools), Cranbourne South 1,093 (1 school).
There are 11 schools in Bendigo, compared to 7 in Cranbourne South.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 23 in Bendigo vs 22 in Cranbourne South.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Bendigo at 9.2% (vs 24.2% in Cranbourne South).
Bendigo has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Cranbourne South's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 18% lower in Bendigo ($596,500 vs $725,000).
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Plan the move: Cranbourne South → Bendigo