Moving to Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven from Charlestown - Dudley
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven and Charlestown - Dudley, 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.
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.
Kanwal Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven's government schools have an average ICSEA of 933, compared to 1,002 in Charlestown - Dudley. 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 Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven none in this SA2, Charlestown - Dudley 1,062 (3 schools).
There are 4 schools in Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven, compared to 14 in Charlestown - Dudley.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 12 in Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven vs 23 in Charlestown - Dudley.
Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Charlestown - Dudley's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 24% lower in Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven ($885,000 vs $1.16M).
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Plan the move: Charlestown - Dudley → Gorokan - Kanwal - Charmhaven