Moving to Nowra from Oran Park
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Nowra and Oran Park, 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.
Barramurra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Oran Park.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Oran Park (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 1,024 in Oran Park. 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), Oran Park 1,059 (3 schools).
There are 10 schools in Nowra, compared to 6 in Oran Park.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 27 in Nowra vs 9 in Oran Park.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Nowra at 7.7% (vs 40.8% in Oran Park).
Nowra has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Oran Park's Decile 8. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 37% lower in Nowra ($780,000 vs $1.23M).
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Plan the move: Oran Park → Nowra