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Moving to Mooroopna from Rockbank - Mount Cottrell

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Mooroopna and Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · current home
Mooroopna
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
35,856
8,391
Annual growth
+14.7%
+1.5%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,123/wk
$1,121/wk
Overseas born
46.0%
11.4%
Non-English-speaking background
62.6%
9.2%
Children aged 0–14
24.6%
16.8%
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 1
IRSAD score
1,029
873
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
3
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,030
870
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
-
987
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
58
8
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$638,000
$465,000
House price YoY
+3.8%
+12.0%
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
32 min
146 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
2
0
Parks nearby
111
15
Train stations
4
1
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
553
1,073
Change vs prior year
+74%
+10%

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 · Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Aintree Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 1,323
ICSEA 1058
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

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

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To · Mooroopna
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Mooroopna Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Mooroopna.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 237
ICSEA 900
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Mooroopna (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 Mary's School
Catholic 272 students
ICSEA 987 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

Mooroopna's government schools have an average ICSEA of 870, compared to 1,030 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell. 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 Mooroopna 987 (1 school), Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2.

There are 3 schools in Mooroopna, compared to 5 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 8 in Mooroopna vs 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Mooroopna at 9.2% (vs 62.6% in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell).

Mooroopna has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 27% lower in Mooroopna ($465,000 vs $638,000).

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