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Moving to Sebastopol - Redan from Lara

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

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Comparing
Lara
VIC · current home
Sebastopol - Redan
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
23,952
12,766
Annual growth
+4.5%
-0.2%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,966/wk
$1,020/wk
Overseas born
17.2%
10.0%
Non-English-speaking background
11.8%
5.6%
Children aged 0–14
19.4%
16.6%
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 5
Decile 1
IRSAD score
994
861
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
5
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
995
924
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,040
1,038
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
16
13
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$715,000
$513,000
House price YoY
+3.7%
+20.3%
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.
$500
-
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak
49 min
82 min
GPs nearby
2
0
Supermarkets nearby
2
1
Parks nearby
53
29
Train stations
1
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
906
1,121
Change vs prior year
-2%
+8%

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 →

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The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.

From · Lara
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Lara Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Lara.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 439
ICSEA 993
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Lara (VIC 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 Anthony's School
Catholic 477 students
ICSEA 1040 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 · 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.

Honest tradeoff

Sebastopol - Redan's government schools have an average ICSEA of 924, compared to 995 in Lara. 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 Sebastopol - Redan 1,038 (3 schools), Lara 1,040 (1 school).

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 13 in Sebastopol - Redan vs 16 in Lara.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Sebastopol - Redan at 5.6% (vs 11.8% in Lara).

Sebastopol - Redan has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Lara's Decile 5. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 28% lower in Sebastopol - Redan ($513,000 vs $715,000).

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SEIFA IRSAD Decile 1 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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