IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 890
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 3 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Tasmania economy.
Housing
Gladstone
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Gladstone (Tas.) is a leafy residential suburb of Dorset.
Median house price
No open median house price for Gladstone (Tas.).
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 / wk10th 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
124
Median age
51 yrs
Income / person / wk
$423
Household income / wk
$824
▼ 37% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$165
Mortgage / month
$928
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 11%
- −14 pts vs TAS
- Living alone
- 26%
- −3 pts vs TAS
- Unemployment
- 25%
- +19 pts vs TAS
- In the labour force
- 47%
- −11 pts vs TAS
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 8%
- −14 pts vs TAS
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 48%
- +20 pts vs TAS
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 0%
- −8 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
53 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 49%
- Mortgaged 30%
- Rented 17%
- Other & not stated 4%
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 898
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 2 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 935
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 2 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 911
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 4 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
68 m
range 4–743 m
Land below 5 m
<0.1%
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 →- Rural72%
- Conservation28%
- Infrastructure & special purpose0.2%
- Low-density residential<0.1%
Planning instruments: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Dorset Local Provisions Schedule; Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Break O'Day Local Provisions Schedule. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme zones.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 52%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 52%
- Born overseas
- 15%
- English only at home
- 100%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 23.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Dorset · 89% of residents
- Also spans
- Break O'Day (11%)
- Population
- 7,059 (2025) · +0.8% in a year
- Area / density
- 3,231 km² · 2/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 48 · $1,039/wk household income · $220/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $450k
- Federal grants
- $4.21M in 2025-26 · $597/resident
- Website
- dorset.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
- Bass
- Federal MP
- Jess Teesdale (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 58% 2PP
- State electorate
- Bass
- 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). Not financial advice.