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Macquarie Heads
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Macquarie Heads is a coastal suburb of West Coast.
Median house price
No open median house price for Macquarie Heads.
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.
Terrain & hazard exposure
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. 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.
Planning & zoning
- Conservation95%
4.7% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 95%.
Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – West Coast 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.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 33.2 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- West Coast
- Population
- 4,320 (2025) · +0.1% in a year
- Area / density
- 9,584 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 47 · $958/wk household income · $160/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $204k
- Federal grants
- $2.90M in 2025-26 · $671/resident
- Website
- westcoast.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
- —
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (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.