Moving to Yagoona - Birrong from Ermington - Rydalmere
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Yagoona - Birrong and Ermington - Rydalmere, 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.
Rydalmere Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Ermington - Rydalmere.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Ermington - Rydalmere (NSW catchment data).
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Birrong Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Yagoona - Birrong.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Yagoona - Birrong (NSW catchment data).
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Yagoona - Birrong has weaker government school academic context than Ermington - Rydalmere, with an average ICSEA of 962 compared to 1,041. 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 Yagoona - Birrong 1,042 (1 school), Ermington - Rydalmere 1,084 (2 schools).
There are 5 schools in Yagoona - Birrong, compared to 7 in Ermington - Rydalmere.
Childcare services matched by postcode: 15 in Yagoona - Birrong vs 19 in Ermington - Rydalmere.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Yagoona - Birrong at 69.8% (vs 50.3% in Ermington - Rydalmere).
Yagoona - Birrong has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 3, below Ermington - Rydalmere's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 23% lower in Yagoona - Birrong ($1.5M vs $1.95M).
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Plan the move: Ermington - Rydalmere → Yagoona - Birrong