Moving to Wendouree - Miners Rest from Torquay
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Wendouree - Miners Rest and Torquay, side by side - all from public government data.
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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 (NSW) · NSW BOCSAR (NSW) · CSA Victoria (VIC). How we source this data →
The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.
Torquay P-6 College
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Torquay.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Torquay (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Yuille Park Community College
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Wendouree - Miners Rest.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Wendouree - Miners Rest (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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.
Wendouree - Miners Rest's government schools have an average ICSEA of 922, compared to 1,093 in Torquay. 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 Wendouree - Miners Rest 1,069 (2 schools), Torquay 1,113 (2 schools).
There are 7 schools in Wendouree - Miners Rest, compared to 6 in Torquay.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 14 in Wendouree - Miners Rest vs 25 in Torquay.
Wendouree - Miners Rest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Torquay's Decile 9. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 55% lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest ($537,600 vs $1.21M).
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