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Moving to Wendouree - Miners Rest from White Hills - Ascot

Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Wendouree - Miners Rest and White Hills - Ascot, side by side - all from public government data.

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Comparing
White Hills - Ascot
VIC · current home
Wendouree - Miners Rest
VIC · destination
Population & growth ABS ERP June 2025
Population (2025)
16,095
15,548
Annual growth
+3.0%
+0.2%
Demographics ABS Census 2021
Median household income
$1,689/wk
$1,191/wk
Overseas born
9.9%
8.8%
Non-English-speaking background
9.0%
5.5%
Children aged 0–14
23.6%
18.5%
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 4
Decile 1
IRSAD score
961
886
Schools & childcare ACARA 2025 · ACECQA
Schools
5
7
Government schools ICSEA (avg intake)
965
922
Catholic/independent schools ICSEA (avg intake)
1,052
1,069
Childcare services (matched by suburb name)
14
14
Property VIC + NSW in v1
Median house price
$650,000
$537,600
House price YoY
+5.6%
+18.5%
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.
$480
-
Getting around GTFS commute · OpenStreetMap amenities
Train to CBD, AM peak
128 min
88 min
GPs nearby
2
1
Supermarkets nearby
3
2
Parks nearby
27
42
Train stations
1
0
Safety CSA Victoria (year ending March 2026)
Recorded incidents, latest year (raw count - not population-adjusted)
204
1,672
Change vs prior year
-12%
+13%

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 · White Hills - Ascot
Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW catchments

Epsom Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in White Hills - Ascot.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 425
ICSEA 967
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of White Hills - Ascot (VIC 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)
Holy Rosary School
Catholic 295 students
ICSEA 1052 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 · 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 government school for the centre of Wendouree - Miners Rest (VIC 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)
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's government schools have an average ICSEA of 922, compared to 965 in White Hills - Ascot. 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), White Hills - Ascot 1,052 (1 school).

There are 7 schools in Wendouree - Miners Rest, compared to 5 in White Hills - Ascot.

Wendouree - Miners Rest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below White Hills - Ascot's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.

Median house prices are 17% lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest ($537,600 vs $650,000).

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SEIFA IRSAD Decile 1 · Decile 10 = most advantaged
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