Moving to Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga from Box Hill (Nelson area)
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga and Box Hill - Nelson, side by side - all from public government data.
Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga has 25,057 people (ABS, June 2025), 0.0% in a year, a median house price of $1.31M, 3 schools and 4 childcare services. Full Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga suburb profile.
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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 sales Mar 2026 and rent Jun 2026 (NSW) · RTA Queensland rents (QLD) · 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.
Oakville Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Box Hill - Nelson.
The government catchment school for parts of Box Hill - Nelson is Oakville Public School - just outside the suburb boundary (NSW catchment data).
See the catchment on the mapFee-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.
Ettalong Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Honest tradeoff
Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga's government schools have an average ICSEA of 984, compared to 1,123 in Box Hill - Nelson. 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 Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga none in this SA2, Box Hill - Nelson 1,091 (2 schools).
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 4 in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga vs 15 in Box Hill - Nelson.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga at 7.1% (vs 43.2% in Box Hill - Nelson).
Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 4, below Box Hill - Nelson's Decile 10. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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What is the population of Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga?
25,057 people lived in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga at June 2025 (ABS Estimated Resident Population), a change of 0.0% over the year. Box Hill (Nelson area) had 26,348.
Are houses cheaper in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga than in Box Hill (Nelson area)?
No. The median house price is $1.31M in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga and $1.28M in Box Hill (Nelson area), 3% higher in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga.
How many schools are in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga?
ACARA lists 3 schools in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga, against 3 in Box Hill (Nelson area). The zoned government school for an address is shown above under "Which school is zoned?".
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