Moving to Collingwood Park (Redbank area) from Ripley
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Collingwood Park - Redbank and Ripley, side by side - all from public government data.
Collingwood Park (Redbank area) has 14,921 people (ABS, June 2025), +5.8% in a year, 5 schools and 11 childcare services. Full Collingwood Park (Redbank area) suburb profile.
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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 sales Mar 2026 and rent Jun 2026 (NSW) · RTA Queensland rents (QLD) . How we source this data →
Which school is zoned?
The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.
Ripley Central State School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Ripley.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Ripley (QLD catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapWe show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Collingwood Park State School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Collingwood Park - Redbank.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Collingwood Park - Redbank (QLD 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.
Honest tradeoff
Collingwood Park - Redbank's government schools have an average ICSEA of 949, compared to 1,015 in Ripley. 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 Collingwood Park - Redbank 968 (1 school), Ripley none in this SA2.
There are 5 schools in Collingwood Park - Redbank, compared to 4 in Ripley.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 11 in Collingwood Park - Redbank vs 15 in Ripley.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Collingwood Park - Redbank at 23.1% (vs 13.2% in Ripley).
Collingwood Park - Redbank has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Ripley's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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What is the population of Collingwood Park (Redbank area)?
14,921 people lived in Collingwood Park (Redbank area) at June 2025 (ABS Estimated Resident Population), a change of +5.8% over the year. Ripley had 23,459.
How many schools are in Collingwood Park (Redbank area)?
ACARA lists 5 schools in Collingwood Park (Redbank area), against 4 in Ripley. The zoned government school for an address is shown above under "Which school is zoned?".
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Plan the move: Ripley → Collingwood Park - Redbank