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Housing

Hobart

Tasmania · Census 2021

Median house price not tracked for this suburb

Hobart is an inner-city suburb of Hobart.

Household income
$1,464/wk66th pctile
of 740 TAS suburbs
Amenity score
100/10099th pctile
of 250 rated TAS suburbs

Median house price

No open median house price for Hobart.

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: $750k; Rest of Tas.: $625k.

How it compares

Household income / wk66th percentile
<$450ABS Census 2021$2,750+
Household income / wk
TASAU

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 Jun 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
3,390
Median age
31 yrs
Income / person / wk
$667
Household income / wk
$1,464
▲ 12% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$380
Mortgage / month
$1,848

Who lives here

Couples with children
8%
−17 pts vs TAS
Living alone
40%
+11 pts vs TAS
Unemployment
13%
+7 pts vs TAS
In the labour force
57%
−1 pts vs TAS
Bachelor degree or higher
43%
+21 pts vs TAS
Earning $1–$499 a week
24%
−5 pts vs TAS
Earning $2,000+ a week
8%
level with 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

1,065 occupied private dwellings

Dwelling type
  • Separate house 19%
  • Flat or apartment 62%
  • Semi, terrace & other 19%

TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments

Tenure
  • Owned outright 16%
  • Mortgaged 12%
  • Rented 68%
  • Other & not stated 5%

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.

Terrain & hazard exposure

Median elevation
24 m
range 0–57 m
Land below 5 m
7.6%
1.8% below 2 m
Observed under water since 1987
8.1%
plus 0.6% 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. 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)
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  • Infrastructure & special purpose45%
  • Centres & mixed use43%
  • General / medium / high-density residential8.5%
  • Open space & recreation2.9%

Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Hobart 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; TAS Local Historic Heritage Code.

Local amenities

Schools
4
Supermarkets
2
Pubs & bars
35
Parks
16
Libraries
2
GP clinics
7
Pharmacies
9
Hospitals
3
Nearest supermarket
0.2 km
Nearest train
7.0 km
Nearest hospital
0.2 km
Distance to coast
0.6 km
NBN
FIXED LINE

Grocery mix: 2 Woolworths. 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 · 49%
Top language at home
Mandarin · 4%
No religion
49%
Born overseas
44%
English only at home
65%

Schools by sector

Government / Catholic / Indep.
0 / 1 / 2
Primary / Secondary
3 / 3
Nearest secondary
0.6 km

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

Local council

Council (LGA)
Hobart
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

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
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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.