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Moving to Fraser Rise - Plumpton from Ballarat North - Invermay

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Fraser Rise - Plumpton and Ballarat North - Invermay, side by side - all from public government data.

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Ballarat North - Invermay
VIC · current home
Fraser Rise - Plumpton
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
15,204
24,739
Annual growth
+0.6%
+19.7%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,644/wk
$2,254/wk
Overseas born
9.2%
42.2%
Non-English-speaking background
4.9%
52.9%
Children aged 0–14
18.7%
27.6%
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 6
Decile 7
IRSAD score
1,015
1,035
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
7
2
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,006
1,031
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,090
-
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
12
6
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$590,500
$700,000
House price YoY
+6.0%
+2.6%
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
82 min
32 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
0
1
Parks nearby
44
80
Train stations
3
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
274
548
Change vs prior year
+45%
+2%

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 · Ballarat North - Invermay
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Black Hill Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Ballarat North - Invermay.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 397
ICSEA 1042
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Ballarat North - Invermay (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 Columba's School
Catholic 334 students
ICSEA 1090 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 · Fraser Rise - Plumpton
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Deanside Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 590
ICSEA 1044
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Fraser Rise - Plumpton (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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

Honest tradeoff

Fraser Rise - Plumpton's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,031, compared to 1,006 in Ballarat North - Invermay. 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 Fraser Rise - Plumpton none in this SA2, Ballarat North - Invermay 1,090 (1 school).

There are 2 schools in Fraser Rise - Plumpton, compared to 7 in Ballarat North - Invermay.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 6 in Fraser Rise - Plumpton vs 12 in Ballarat North - Invermay.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Fraser Rise - Plumpton at 52.9% (vs 4.9% in Ballarat North - Invermay).

Fraser Rise - Plumpton has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, above Ballarat North - Invermay's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 19% higher in Fraser Rise - Plumpton ($700,000 vs $590,500).

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