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Moving to Rockbank - Mount Cottrell from Sebastopol - Redan

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

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Comparing
Sebastopol - Redan
VIC · current home
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
12,766
35,856
Annual growth
-0.2%
+14.7%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,020/wk
$2,123/wk
Overseas born
10.0%
46.0%
Non-English-speaking background
5.6%
62.6%
Children aged 0–14
16.6%
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 1
Decile 7
IRSAD score
861
1,029
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
5
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
924
1,030
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,038
-
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
13
58
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$513,000
$638,000
House price YoY
+20.3%
+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
82 min
32 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
1
2
Parks nearby
29
111
Train stations
0
4
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
1,121
553
Change vs prior year
+8%
+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 · Sebastopol - Redan
Government schools Live VIC + NSW catchments

Government schools in Sebastopol - Redan

Free government schools your child may attend. We couldn’t confirm the exact zone for this point, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.

Phoenix P-12 Community College Government · 1,473 students
ICSEA 947
Sebastopol Primary School Government · 98 students
ICSEA 901

A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Ballarat Christian College
Independent 406 students
ICSEA 1058 intake context
St Aloysius' School
Catholic 254 students
ICSEA 1022 intake context
St James' School
Catholic 166 students
ICSEA 1034 intake context

Fee-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.

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

Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,030, compared to 924 in Sebastopol - Redan. 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 Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2, Sebastopol - Redan 1,038 (3 schools).

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell vs 13 in Sebastopol - Redan.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell at 62.6% (vs 5.6% in Sebastopol - Redan).

Rockbank - Mount Cottrell has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, above Sebastopol - Redan's Decile 1. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 24% higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell ($638,000 vs $513,000).

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