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Moving to Wendouree - Miners Rest from Rockbank - Mount Cottrell

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Wendouree - Miners Rest and Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, side by side — all from public government data.

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Comparing
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
VIC · current home
Wendouree - Miners Rest
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2024)
35,856
15,548
Annual growth
+14.7%
+0.2%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$2,123/wk
$1,191/wk
Overseas born
46.0%
8.8%
Non-English-speaking background
62.6%
5.5%
Children aged 0–14
24.6%
18.5%
SEIFA advantage ABS SEIFA 2021
IRSAD decile (1 = most disadvantaged, 10 = most advantaged)
Decile 7
Decile 1
IRSAD score
1,029
886
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
7
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,030
922
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
—
1,069
Childcare services (matched by postcode)
15
15
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$600,700
$502,000
House price YoY
+0.2%
+14.1%
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 Nearest-station AM-peak estimate (VIC/QLD/WA); a blank means no station matched within range for that suburb — not that it has no transport.
36 min
—
GPs nearby
0
1
Supermarkets nearby
2
2
Parks nearby
111
42
Train stations
4
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending Dec 2025)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count — not population-adjusted)
559
1,618
Change vs prior year
+117%
+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 in-area government school for Rockbank - Mount Cottrell (VIC catchment data).

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To · Wendouree - Miners Rest
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Yuille Park Community College

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Wendouree - Miners Rest.

Sector Government
Years Prep-12
Students 209
ICSEA 840
A picture of students’ family backgrounds — not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned in-area government school for Wendouree - Miners Rest (VIC catchment data).

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Also nearby — Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Ballarat Grammar
Independent 1,989 students
ICSEA 1120 intake context
Our Lady Help of Christians School
Catholic 101 students
ICSEA 1017 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

Wendouree - Miners Rest has weaker government school academic context than Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, with an average ICSEA of 922 compared to 1,030. ICSEA reflects the academic and socioeconomic intake of students — a higher score signals a higher-resourced school community.

Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment — average ICSEA Wendouree - Miners Rest 1,069 (2 schools), Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2.

There are 7 schools in Wendouree - Miners Rest, compared to 5 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.

The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest at 5.5% (vs 62.6% in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell).

Wendouree - Miners Rest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 16% lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest ($502,000 vs $600,700).

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