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Moving to Tarneit - North from Rockbank - Mount Cottrell

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

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Comparing
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · current home
Tarneit - North
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
35,856
15,880
Annual growth
+14.7%
+18.5%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,123/wk
$2,198/wk
Overseas born
46.0%
64.7%
Non-English-speaking background
62.6%
79.5%
Children aged 0–14
24.6%
29.7%
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
1,029
1,031
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
3
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,030
1,049
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
-
1,104
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
58
-
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$638,000
$675,000
House price YoY
+3.8%
+3.1%
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
30 min
GPs nearby
0
0
Supermarkets nearby
2
0
Parks nearby
111
61
Train stations
4
2
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
553
3,661
Change vs prior year
+74%
+14%

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 · 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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To · Tarneit - North
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Nearnung Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Tarneit - North.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 485
ICSEA 1045
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Tarneit - North (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 Teresa of Kolkata Catholic Primary School
Catholic 204 students
ICSEA 1104 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

Tarneit - North's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,049, compared to 1,030 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell. 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 Tarneit - North 1,104 (1 school), Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2.

There are 3 schools in Tarneit - North, compared to 5 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Tarneit - North at 79.5% (vs 62.6% in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell).

Median house prices are 6% higher in Tarneit - North ($675,000 vs $638,000).

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