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Moving to Flora Hill - Spring Gully from Bendigo Surrounds - South

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Flora Hill - Spring Gully and Bendigo Surrounds - South, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Bendigo Surrounds - South
VIC · current home
Flora Hill - Spring Gully
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
9,094
9,534
Annual growth
+1.7%
0.0%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,040/wk
$1,465/wk
Overseas born
6.8%
10.0%
Non-English-speaking background
2.4%
7.1%
Children aged 0–14
20.7%
17.5%
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 7
Decile 5
IRSAD score
1,025
981
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
4
4
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,012
1,036
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
-
1,064
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
6
3
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$673,800
$715,000
House price YoY
+5.3%
+20.2%
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.
-
-
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak
116 min
120 min
GPs nearby
0
3
Supermarkets nearby
0
0
Parks nearby
1
12
Train stations
0
1
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
-
194
Change vs prior year
-
-16%

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 · Bendigo Surrounds - South
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Kangaroo Flat Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Bendigo Surrounds - South.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 313
ICSEA 908
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

The government catchment school for parts of Bendigo Surrounds - South is Kangaroo Flat Primary School - just outside the suburb boundary (VIC catchment data).

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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

To · Flora Hill - Spring Gully
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Quarry Hill Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Flora Hill - Spring Gully.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 324
ICSEA 1037
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Flora Hill - Spring Gully (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)
St Joseph's School
Catholic 234 students
ICSEA 1064 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

Flora Hill - Spring Gully's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,036, compared to 1,012 in Bendigo Surrounds - 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 Flora Hill - Spring Gully 1,064 (1 school), Bendigo Surrounds - South none in this SA2.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 3 in Flora Hill - Spring Gully vs 6 in Bendigo Surrounds - South.

Flora Hill - Spring Gully has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, below Bendigo Surrounds - South's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 6% higher in Flora Hill - Spring Gully ($715,000 vs $673,800).

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