Moving to Nowra from Balgownie - Fairy Meadow
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Nowra and Balgownie - Fairy Meadow, 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.
Mt Ousley PS
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Balgownie - Fairy Meadow.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Balgownie - Fairy Meadow (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.
Nowra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Nowra.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Nowra (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.
Nowra's government schools have an average ICSEA of 915, compared to 1,053 in Balgownie - Fairy Meadow. 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 Nowra 984 (4 schools), Balgownie - Fairy Meadow 1,028 (3 schools).
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 27 in Nowra vs 19 in Balgownie - Fairy Meadow.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Nowra at 7.7% (vs 18.4% in Balgownie - Fairy Meadow).
Nowra has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Balgownie - Fairy Meadow's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 43% lower in Nowra ($780,000 vs $1.37M).
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Plan the move: Balgownie - Fairy Meadow → Nowra