Median elevation
12 m
range 0–28 m
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Housing
Dowsing Point
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Dowsing Point is a coastal suburb of Glenorchy.
Median house price
No open median house price for Dowsing Point.
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 / wk48th 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
77
Median age
40 yrs
Income / person / wk
$933
Household income / wk
$1,292
▼ 2% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$360
Mortgage / month
$1,391
Housing stock
33 occupied private dwellings
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.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
18%
14% 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 →- Infrastructure & special purpose81%
- General / medium / high-density residential7.2%
- Conservation4.9%
- Open space & recreation2.3%
4.4% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 96%.
Listed heritage places
0
local places in the planning scheme
Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Glenorchy 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
- 1.3 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Glenorchy
- Population
- 50,450 (2025) · -0.5% in a year
- Area / density
- 121 km² · 416/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 37 · $1,325/wk household income · $325/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $580k
- Federal grants
- $3.15M in 2025-26 · $62/resident
- Website
- gcc.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
- Clark
- Federal MP
- Andrew Wilkie (IND)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 71% 2PP
- State electorate
- Clark
- 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.