Moving to Cranbourne South from Mount Druitt - Whalan
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Cranbourne South and Mount Druitt - Whalan, 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.
Mt Druitt PS
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Mount Druitt - Whalan (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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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.
Cranbourne South's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,012, compared to 925 in Mount Druitt - Whalan. 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 Cranbourne South 1,093 (1 school), Mount Druitt - Whalan 1,006 (5 schools).
There are 7 schools in Cranbourne South, compared to 11 in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 22 in Cranbourne South vs 25 in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Cranbourne South at 24.2% (vs 56.2% in Mount Druitt - Whalan).
Cranbourne South has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, above Mount Druitt - Whalan's Decile 1. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 26% lower in Cranbourne South ($725,000 vs $980,000).
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