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Moving to Rooty Hill - Minchinbury from Doonside - Woodcroft

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Rooty Hill - Minchinbury and Doonside - Woodcroft, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Doonside - Woodcroft
NSW · current home
Rooty Hill - Minchinbury
NSW · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
23,958
23,226
Annual growth
+0.1%
-0.1%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,004/wk
$2,050/wk
Overseas born
50.1%
45.9%
Non-English-speaking background
56.3%
51.9%
Children aged 0–14
20.0%
20.5%
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 5
Decile 5
IRSAD score
978
974
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
6
6
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
935
975
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,062
1,030
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
14
16
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$1.1M
$1.19M
House price YoY
-2.5%
+9.2%
Median 3-bed house rent /wk
$650
$650
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
GPs nearby
1
1
Supermarkets nearby
2
4
Parks nearby
24
37
Train stations
1
1
Safety NSW BOCSAR (Jan-Dec 2025)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
1,114
840
Change vs prior year
-9%
-4%

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 · Doonside - Woodcroft
Government schools Live VIC + NSW catchments

Government schools in Doonside - Woodcroft

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.

Doonside High School Government · 715 students
ICSEA 917
Crawford Public School Government · 387 students
ICSEA 914
Marayong South Public School Government · 286 students
ICSEA 1010
Doonside Public School Government · 258 students
ICSEA 900

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

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Mountain View Adventist College
Independent 592 students
ICSEA 1041 intake context
St John Vianney's Primary School
Catholic 348 students
ICSEA 1083 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 · Rooty Hill - Minchinbury
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Rooty Hill Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Rooty Hill - Minchinbury.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 645
ICSEA 990
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Rooty Hill - Minchinbury (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
St Agnes Catholic High School
Catholic 926 students
ICSEA 1007 intake context
St Aidan's Primary School
Catholic 391 students
ICSEA 1052 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.

Honest tradeoff

Rooty Hill - Minchinbury's government schools have an average ICSEA of 975, compared to 935 in Doonside - Woodcroft. 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 Rooty Hill - Minchinbury 1,030 (2 schools), Doonside - Woodcroft 1,062 (2 schools).

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 16 in Rooty Hill - Minchinbury vs 14 in Doonside - Woodcroft.

Median house prices are 8% higher in Rooty Hill - Minchinbury ($1.19M vs $1.1M).

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