IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 1,089
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 10 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Tasmania economy.
Housing
Fern Tree
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Fern Tree is a leafy residential suburb of Hobart.
Household income
$1,990/wk91st pctile
of 740 TAS suburbs
Amenity score
6/10039th pctile
of 250 rated TAS suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Fern Tree.
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 / wk91st 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
763
Median age
45 yrs
Income / person / wk
$952
Household income / wk
$1,990
▲ 52% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$450
Mortgage / month
$1,570
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 32%
- +7 pts vs TAS
- Living alone
- 18%
- −11 pts vs TAS
- Unemployment
- 4%
- −3 pts vs TAS
- In the labour force
- 67%
- +8 pts vs TAS
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 56%
- +34 pts vs TAS
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 21%
- −8 pts vs TAS
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 16%
- +9 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
283 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 42%
- Mortgaged 47%
- Rented 8%
- Other & not stated 3%
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 1,100
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 10 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,065
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 10 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,148
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 10 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
348 m
range 117–715 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% 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 →- Conservation87%
- Rural11%
- Infrastructure & special purpose1.0%
- Open space & recreation0.4%
- Centres & mixed use0.2%
In a heritage area
8.8%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Planning instruments: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Hobart Local Provisions Schedule; Kingborough Interim Planning Scheme 2015. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: Kingborough Interim Planning Scheme zones; Tasmanian Planning Scheme zones; TAS Local Historic Heritage Code.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
1
Libraries
0
GP clinics
2
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
5.9 km
Nearest train
11.2 km
Nearest hospital
5.4 km
Distance to coast
6.7 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 70%
- Top language at home
- French · 1%
- No religion
- 70%
- Born overseas
- 22%
- English only at home
- 93%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 3.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Hobart · 94% of residents
- Also spans
- Kingborough (6%)
- Population
- 55,859 (2025) · -0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 78 km² · 717/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 37 · $1,842/wk household income · $390/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $950k
- Federal grants
- $3.42M in 2025-26 · $61/resident
- Website
- hobartcity.com.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
- —
Where it is in Tasmania
View on the full Tasmania map →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); Kingborough Interim Planning Scheme 2015 Zones, theLIST © State of Tasmania (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.