IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 873
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 2 of 10
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Housing
Newnham
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Newnham is a coastal suburb of Launceston.
Household income
$1,223/wk42nd pctile
of 740 TAS suburbs
Amenity score
27/10076th pctile
of 250 rated TAS suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Newnham.
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 / wk42nd 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
7,073
Median age
34 yrs
Income / person / wk
$612
Household income / wk
$1,223
▼ 7% vs TAS
Median rent / wk
$270
Mortgage / month
$1,300
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 26%
- level with TAS
- Living alone
- 29%
- −1 pts vs TAS
- Unemployment
- 8%
- +2 pts vs TAS
- In the labour force
- 58%
- level with TAS
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 18%
- −4 pts vs TAS
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 32%
- +4 pts vs TAS
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 3%
- −4 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
2,539 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 77%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 23%
TAS: 87% separate houses · 5% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 29%
- Mortgaged 31%
- Rented 36%
- 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 871
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 1 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 902
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 1 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 884
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within TasmaniaDecile 2 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
27 m
range 0–104 m
Land below 5 m
11%
2.0% 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 →- General / medium / high-density residential44%
- Rural29%
- Infrastructure & special purpose21%
- Open space & recreation3.7%
- Low-density residential1.1%
- Industrial & employment0.6%
- Centres & mixed use0.5%
- Conservation0.2%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
10
local places in the planning scheme
Planning instrument: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Launceston 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
2
Parks
9
Libraries
0
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.0 km
Nearest train
3.3 km
Nearest hospital
6.2 km
Distance to coast
0.9 km
NBN
FIXED LINE
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 · 41%
- Top language at home
- Nepali · 5%
- No religion
- 41%
- Born overseas
- 29%
- English only at home
- 73%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 0 / 0 / 2
- Primary / Secondary
- 2 / 2
- Nearest secondary
- 1.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Launceston
- Population
- 71,341 (2025) · -0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 1,414 km² · 50/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $1,310/wk household income · $278/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $540k
- Federal grants
- $5.60M in 2025-26 · $78/resident
- Website
- launceston.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
- —
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.