Median elevation
304 m
range 0–1441 m
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Housing
Southwest
Tasmania · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Southwest is a bushland suburb of Huon Valley.
Median house price
No open median house price for Southwest.
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.
People & housing
Median age
69 yrs
Income / person / wk
$450
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
0.7%
0.3% 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 →- Conservation98%
- Rural1.5%
- Infrastructure & special purpose<0.1%
- Low-density residential<0.1%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Planning instruments: Tasmanian Planning Scheme – West Coast Local Provisions Schedule; Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Huon Valley Local Provisions Schedule; Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Derwent Valley Local Provisions Schedule; Tasmanian Planning Scheme – Central Highlands 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
- 68.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Huon Valley
- Population
- 19,893 (2025) · +0.9% in a year
- Area / density
- 5,507 km² · 4/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 46 · $1,227/wk household income · $290/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $665k
- Federal grants
- $4.63M in 2025-26 · $233/resident
- Website
- huonvalley.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
- Lyons
- Federal MP
- Rebecca White (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 62% 2PP
- State electorate
- Lyons
- State MP
- —
Similar suburbs
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Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (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); Tasmanian Planning Scheme Code Overlay — Local Historic Heritage, theLIST © State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU). Not financial advice.