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Moving to Rockbank - Mount Cottrell from Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds

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

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Comparing
Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds
NSW · current home
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
21,774
35,856
Annual growth
+0.5%
+14.7%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$3,164/wk
$2,123/wk
Overseas born
45.5%
46.0%
Non-English-speaking background
47.5%
62.6%
Children aged 0–14
26.8%
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 10
Decile 7
IRSAD score
1,144
1,029
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
3
5
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,090
1,030
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
11
58
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$1.59M
$638,000
House price YoY
+0.4%
+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.
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-
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak Nearest-station AM-peak estimate (VIC/QLD/WA); a blank means no station matched within range for that suburb - not that it has no transport.
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32 min
GPs nearby
3
0
Supermarkets nearby
3
2
Parks nearby
25
111
Train stations
0
4
Safety NSW and Victorian crime figures cannot be compared
NSW BOCSAR (Jan-Dec 2025) and CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026) record crime on different bases - police recording practices differ between states, so a count from one is not comparable to a count from the other. We do not place them side by side.

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 · Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

John Palmer Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 950
ICSEA 1125
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds (NSW 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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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

Honest tradeoff

Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,030, compared to 1,090 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds. ICSEA reflects the socioeconomic intake of students, not teaching quality - it is not a ranking of school performance.

There are 5 schools in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, compared to 3 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell vs 11 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell at 62.6% (vs 47.5% in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds).

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

Median house prices are 60% lower in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell ($638,000 vs $1.59M).

Similar suburbs near Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
Bundoora - North VIC
SEIFA IRSAD Decile 7 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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House$700,000
Gov ICSEA1,031
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Childcare6
SEIFA IRSAD Decile 7 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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Gov ICSEA1,024
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Gov ICSEA1,014
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Gov ICSEA1,014
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SEIFA IRSAD Decile 6 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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