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Moving to Thornton - Millers Forest from Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Thornton - Millers Forest and Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills
NSW · current home
Thornton - Millers Forest
NSW · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
20,313
19,925
Annual growth
+4.6%
+4.6%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,551/wk
$2,209/wk
Overseas born
30.7%
11.2%
Non-English-speaking background
36.7%
8.1%
Children aged 0–14
28.6%
23.3%
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 9
Decile 6
IRSAD score
1,085
1,007
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
3
5
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,026
947
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
-
1,034
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
13
13
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$1.32M
$857,000
House price YoY
+15.2%
+7.5%
Median 3-bed house rent /wk
$720
$640
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
GPs nearby
1
2
Supermarkets nearby
2
0
Parks nearby
30
11
Train stations
0
1
Safety NSW BOCSAR (Jan-Dec 2025)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
224
814
Change vs prior year
-16%
+19%

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 · Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills
Government schools Live VIC + NSW catchments

Government schools in Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills

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.

Gledswood Hills Public School Government · 976 students
ICSEA 1038
Gregory Hills Public School Government · 647 students
ICSEA 1028
Gledswood Hills High School Government · 87 students
ICSEA 1013

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

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To · Thornton - Millers Forest
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Thornton Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Thornton - Millers Forest.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 826
ICSEA 974
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Thornton - Millers Forest (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 Bede's Catholic College
Catholic 910 students
ICSEA 1030 intake context
St Aloysius Catholic Primary School
Catholic 614 students
ICSEA 1064 intake context
Aspect Hunter School
Independent 290 students
ICSEA 1008 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

Thornton - Millers Forest's government schools have an average ICSEA of 947, compared to 1,026 in Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills. 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 Thornton - Millers Forest 1,034 (3 schools), Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills none in this SA2.

There are 5 schools in Thornton - Millers Forest, compared to 3 in Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Thornton - Millers Forest at 8.1% (vs 36.7% in Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills).

Thornton - Millers Forest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 6, below Gledswood Hills - Gregory Hills's Decile 9. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 35% lower in Thornton - Millers Forest ($857,000 vs $1.32M).

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