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Moving to Rockbank - Mount Cottrell from Fraser Rise - Plumpton

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

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Comparing
Fraser Rise - Plumpton
VIC · current home
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
24,739
35,856
Annual growth
+19.7%
+14.7%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,254/wk
$2,123/wk
Overseas born
42.2%
46.0%
Non-English-speaking background
52.9%
62.6%
Children aged 0–14
27.6%
24.6%
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 7
IRSAD score
1,035
1,029
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
2
5
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,031
1,030
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
6
58
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$700,000
$638,000
House price YoY
+2.6%
+3.8%
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
32 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
1
2
Parks nearby
80
111
Train stations
0
4
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
548
553
Change vs prior year
+2%
+74%

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 · Fraser Rise - Plumpton
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Deanside Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 590
ICSEA 1044
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

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

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To · 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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Honest tradeoff

Government school academic context is comparable between Rockbank - Mount Cottrell (ICSEA 1,030) and Fraser Rise - Plumpton (1,031).

There are 5 schools in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, compared to 2 in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell vs 6 in Fraser Rise - Plumpton.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell at 62.6% (vs 52.9% in Fraser Rise - Plumpton).

Median house prices are 9% lower in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell ($638,000 vs $700,000).

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