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Housing

Cape Pillar

Tasmania · Census 2021

Median house price not tracked for this suburb

Cape Pillar is a coastal suburb of Tasman.

Median house price

No open median house price for Cape Pillar.

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.

Terrain & hazard exposure

Median elevation
188 m
range 0–482 m
Land below 5 m
1.5%
1.2% below 2 m
Observed under water since 1987
5.4%
plus 0.4% permanent water
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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. Most of this suburb lies in a council whose planning scheme maps no flood-prone areas, or that is still on an interim scheme (Kingborough). 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)
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  • Conservation99%
  • Rural<0.1%

0.9% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 99%.

Listed heritage places
0
local places in the planning scheme

Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Tasman 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.

Schools by sector

Nearest secondary
18.1 km

School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.

Local council

Council (LGA)
Tasman
Population
2,738 (2025) · +1.1% in a year
Area / density
660 km² · 4/km²
Council medians (2021)
age 57 · $863/wk household income · $250/wk rent
Council-wide house median (2023-24)
$550k
Federal grants
$1.53M in 2025-26 · $559/resident

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
Lyons
Federal MP
Rebecca White (ALP)
Two-party-preferred
Labor 62% 2PP
State electorate
Lyons
State MP

Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (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.