IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 939
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 5 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Tasmania economy.
Housing
Abels Bay
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Abels Bay is a coastal suburb of Huon Valley.
Median house price
No open median house price for Abels Bay.
Tasmania publishes no open Valuer-General sales feed, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Hobart: $740k; Rest of Tas.: $620k.
How it compares
Household income / wk8th percentile
<$450ABS Census 2021$2,750+
Percentiles rank this suburb against Tasmania suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Tasmania and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
127
Median age
60 yrs
Income / person / wk
$444
Household income / wk
$766
▼ 42% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$200
Mortgage / month
$1,010
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 12%
- −13 pts vs TAS
- Living alone
- 32%
- +3 pts vs TAS
- In the labour force
- 27%
- −31 pts vs TAS
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 25%
- +3 pts vs TAS
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 50%
- +21 pts vs TAS
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 3%
- −4 pts vs TAS
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. TAS figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
59 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 78%
- Mortgaged 15%
- Rented 5%
- Other & not stated 2%
TAS: 36% owned outright · 33% mortgaged · 27% rented
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 947
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 4 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 940
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 3 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,020
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 9 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
47 m
range 0–137 m
Land below 5 m
1.9%
1.2% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area; where part of a suburb is unmapped, only its mapped land counts, so the share is a floor. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Only councils whose Local Provisions Schedule maps flood-prone areas are covered. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Kingborough is still on an interim planning scheme and is shown as no statutory layer. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Rural54%
- Conservation43%
- Low-density residential2.3%
- Infrastructure & special purpose0.2%
- Open space & recreation<0.1%
Listed heritage places
0
local places in the planning scheme
Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Huon Valley Local Provisions Schedule. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme zones; TAS Local Historic Heritage Code.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 50%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 50%
- Born overseas
- 35%
- English only at home
- 93%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 8.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Huon Valley
- Population
- 19,893 (2025) · +0.9% in a year
- Area / density
- 5,507 km² · 4/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 46 · $1,227/wk household income · $290/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $665k
- Federal grants
- $4.63M in 2025-26 · $233/resident
- Website
- huonvalley.tas.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Franklin
- Federal MP
- Julie Collins (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 69% 2PP
- State electorate
- Franklin
- State MP
- —
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Tasmanian Planning Scheme — Code Overlay (Flood-prone Areas), Tasmanian Planning Commission via theLIST (CC BY 3.0 AU); Tasmanian Planning Scheme — Code Overlay (Bushfire-prone Areas), Tasmanian Planning Commission via theLIST (CC BY 3.0 AU); Tasmanian Planning Scheme Zones, theLIST © State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); Tasmanian Planning Scheme Code Overlay — Local Historic Heritage, theLIST © State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU). Not financial advice.