IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 914
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 4 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Tasmania economy.
Housing
Forest
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Forest is a leafy residential suburb of Circular Head.
Household income
$1,321/wk52nd pctile
of 740 TAS suburbs
Amenity score
3/10022nd pctile
of 250 rated TAS suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Forest.
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 / wk52nd 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
464
Median age
38 yrs
Income / person / wk
$687
Household income / wk
$1,321
▲ 1% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$225
Mortgage / month
$1,060
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 33%
- +8 pts vs TAS
- Living alone
- 26%
- −3 pts vs TAS
- Unemployment
- 5%
- −1 pts vs TAS
- In the labour force
- 64%
- +5 pts vs TAS
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 7%
- −15 pts vs TAS
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 30%
- +2 pts vs TAS
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 5%
- −3 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
171 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 98%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 2%
TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 40%
- Mortgaged 43%
- Rented 16%
- 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 962
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 5 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 979
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 5 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 898
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 3 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
49 m
range 5–91 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. 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)
Show on map →- Rural99%
- Infrastructure & special purpose0.6%
- Low-density residential0.4%
- Conservation0.3%
- Open space & recreation0.1%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
0
local places in the planning scheme
Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Circular Head 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.
Local amenities
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
9.5 km
Nearest train
60.6 km
Nearest hospital
9.3 km
Distance to coast
4.2 km
NBN
FIXED WIRELESS
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 · 48%
- Top language at home
- German · 1%
- No religion
- 48%
- Born overseas
- 8%
- English only at home
- 97%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 10.2 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Circular Head
- Population
- 8,286 (2025) · -0.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 4,898 km² · 2/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 41 · $1,270/wk household income · $220/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $410k
- Federal grants
- $4.49M in 2025-26 · $542/resident
- Website
- circularhead.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
- Braddon
- Federal MP
- Anne Urquhart (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 57% 2PP
- State electorate
- Braddon
- 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); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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.