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Moving to Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga from Schofields - East

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga and Schofields - East, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
Schofields - East
NSW · current home
Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga
NSW · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
38,569
25,057
Annual growth
+7.4%
0.0%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,682/wk
$1,329/wk
Overseas born
54.0%
17.1%
Non-English-speaking background
60.5%
7.1%
Children aged 0–14
28.0%
16.4%
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 10
Decile 4
IRSAD score
1,130
965
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
8
3
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,107
984
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,106
-
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
19
4
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$1.38M
$1.31M
House price YoY
+7.6%
+2.7%
Median 3-bed house rent /wk
$745
$700
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
GPs nearby
0
1
Supermarkets nearby
2
2
Parks nearby
15
24
Train stations
0
0
Safety NSW BOCSAR (Jan-Dec 2025)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
564
-
Change vs prior year
-5%
-

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 · Schofields - East
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Riverbank Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Schofields - East.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 2,030
ICSEA 1141
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Schofields - East (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)
Rouse Hill Anglican College
Independent 1,578 students
ICSEA 1137 intake context
St John Paul II Catholic College
Catholic 1,159 students
ICSEA 1074 intake context
St Joseph's Primary School
Catholic 724 students
ICSEA 1108 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

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To · Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Ettalong Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 490
ICSEA 975
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

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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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

Honest tradeoff

Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga's government schools have an average ICSEA of 984, compared to 1,107 in Schofields - East. 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, Schofields - East 1,106 (3 schools).

There are 3 schools in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga, compared to 8 in Schofields - East.

Childcare services matched by suburb name: 4 in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga vs 19 in Schofields - East.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga at 7.1% (vs 60.5% in Schofields - East).

Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 4, below Schofields - East's Decile 10. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

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