Moving to Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough from Charlestown (Dudley area)
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough and Charlestown - Dudley, side by side - all from public government data.
Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough has 25,569 people (ABS, June 2025), +0.5% in a year, a median house price of $965,000, 13 schools and 25 childcare services. Full Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough 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.
Charlestown Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Charlestown - Dudley.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Charlestown - Dudley (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.
Cardiff Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough (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
Government schools in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough and Charlestown - Dudley have a similar average ICSEA (1,000 and 1,002) - a measure of student intake, not teaching quality.
Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment - average ICSEA Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough 1,072 (4 schools), Charlestown - Dudley 1,062 (3 schools).
There are 13 schools in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough, compared to 14 in Charlestown - Dudley.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 25 in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough vs 22 in Charlestown - Dudley.
Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, below Charlestown - Dudley's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 17% lower in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough ($965,000 vs $1.16M).
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What is the population of Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough?
25,569 people lived in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough at June 2025 (ABS Estimated Resident Population), a change of +0.5% over the year. Charlestown (Dudley area) had 26,087.
Are houses cheaper in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough than in Charlestown (Dudley area)?
Yes. The median house price is $965,000 in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough and $1.16M in Charlestown (Dudley area), 17% lower in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough.
How many schools are in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough?
ACARA lists 13 schools in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough, against 14 in Charlestown (Dudley area). The zoned government school for an address is shown above under "Which school is zoned?".
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