Moving to Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi from Nowra
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi and Nowra, side by side - all from public government data.
Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi has 16,704 people (ABS, June 2025), +1.3% in a year, a median house price of $1.43M, 8 schools and 12 childcare services. Full Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi 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) · 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.
Nowra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Nowra.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Nowra (NSW 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.
Corrimal Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi (NSW 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
Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi's government schools have an average ICSEA of 958, compared to 915 in Nowra. 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 Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi 1,053 (3 schools), Nowra 984 (4 schools).
There are 8 schools in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi, compared to 10 in Nowra.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 12 in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi vs 28 in Nowra.
Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 4, above Nowra's Decile 2. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 84% higher in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi ($1.43M vs $780,000).
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What is the population of Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi?
16,704 people lived in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi at June 2025 (ABS Estimated Resident Population), a change of +1.3% over the year. Nowra had 23,716.
Are houses cheaper in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi than in Nowra?
No. The median house price is $1.43M in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi and $780,000 in Nowra, 84% higher in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi.
How many schools are in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi?
ACARA lists 8 schools in Corrimal - Tarrawanna - Bellambi, against 10 in Nowra. The zoned government school for an address is shown above under "Which school is zoned?".
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