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Moving to Corio - Lovely Banks from Canadian - Mount Clear

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Corio - Lovely Banks and Canadian - Mount Clear, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Canadian - Mount Clear
VIC · current home
Corio - Lovely Banks
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
12,518
18,486
Annual growth
+0.9%
+0.2%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,396/wk
$1,230/wk
Overseas born
12.6%
25.0%
Non-English-speaking background
8.7%
24.5%
Children aged 0–14
17.5%
18.4%
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 4
Decile 1
IRSAD score
963
849
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
7
4
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
978
877
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,070
1,039
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
5
9
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$590,900
$595,000
House price YoY
+24.7%
+18.2%
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.
-
$420
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak
82 min
54 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
1
2
Parks nearby
45
39
Train stations
0
1
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
186
2,118
Change vs prior year
+18%
+7%

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 →

Which school is zoned?

The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.

From · Canadian - Mount Clear
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Mount Clear Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Canadian - Mount Clear.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 221
ICSEA 991
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Canadian - Mount Clear (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)
Damascus College
Catholic 1,215 students
ICSEA 1052 intake context
Emmaus Catholic Primary School
Catholic 362 students
ICSEA 1088 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.

To · Corio - Lovely Banks
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Northern Bay P-12 College

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Corio - Lovely Banks.

Sector Government
Years Prep-12
Students 1,726
ICSEA 877
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Corio - Lovely Banks (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)
Geelong Grammar School
Independent 1,422 students
ICSEA 1149 intake context
Geelong Baptist College
Independent 255 students
ICSEA 1031 intake context
St Francis Xavier School
Catholic 177 students
ICSEA 937 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

Corio - Lovely Banks's government schools have an average ICSEA of 877, compared to 978 in Canadian - Mount Clear. 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 Corio - Lovely Banks 1,039 (3 schools), Canadian - Mount Clear 1,070 (2 schools).

There are 4 schools in Corio - Lovely Banks, compared to 7 in Canadian - Mount Clear.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 9 in Corio - Lovely Banks vs 5 in Canadian - Mount Clear.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Corio - Lovely Banks at 24.5% (vs 8.7% in Canadian - Mount Clear).

Corio - Lovely Banks has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Canadian - Mount Clear's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

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SEIFA IRSAD Decile 3 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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