Moving to Quakers Hill from Nowra
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Quakers Hill and Nowra, 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.
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.
Barnier Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Quakers Hill.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Quakers Hill (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.
Quakers Hill's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,045, compared to 915 in Nowra. 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 Quakers Hill 1,098 (1 school), Nowra 984 (4 schools).
There are 5 schools in Quakers Hill, compared to 10 in Nowra.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 22 in Quakers Hill vs 27 in Nowra.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Quakers Hill at 45.8% (vs 7.7% in Nowra).
Quakers Hill has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 8, above Nowra's Decile 2. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 73% higher in Quakers Hill ($1.35M vs $780,000).
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