Carlton TAS 7173
Carlton is a town in Tasmania, 42 km from Hobart CBD, around 42 minutes by car. Population is 1,363; the median age is 38 and the median household income is $74,100 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the lower-middle tier nationally. The town grew 21.8% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $350 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,347. Carlton is characterised by high bushfire risk. 1 school sits within the town boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Carlton a good town?
Carlton scores a D (36/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on transit and safety.
Mixed results
1 school
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 41.8 km · 42 min drive to Hobart
Median available
Median $590K
High bushfire risk
Fire 89/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 3/10 · median age 38 · 1,363 residents
Liveability Rating
36 / 100 · Ranked #161 in TASEach bar is Carlton's rank among TAS suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
No crime data is published for Tasmania — a blank here means we hold no data, not that there is no risk.
Flood data for Tasmania covers only the areas mapped there — a blank here is not an all-clear.
How do you rate the liveability in Carlton?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
36 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataCarlton's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $590,000, roughly 10% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$590,000
14% below its 3 neighbours (median $686,000)
Based on 45 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 38 days — median across 16 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 8 sales $500K
- 3 bed 27 sales $615K
- 4 bed 8 sales $768K
Land
$562,500
Based on only 8 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Carlton are currently listed at around $674,000 on average. Based on 12 houses listed in the past six months.
$674K
12 houses listed in the last 6 months.
12 of the suburb's 514 dwellings (2.3%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Carlton rent for around $530 a week on average, based on 3 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$530/wk
3 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
3 rentals advertised against an estimated 87 rented homes (3.4%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Sep 2025–Aug 2026- All rentals
- $500/wk
- 17 bonds
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025111 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 27% of its income on the median rent in postcode 7173.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$530/week ($28,000 a year) on a $674,000 median
Based on a small sample (3 listings) — indicative only.
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Short-Stay Rentals
11 active Airbnb listings: 11 whole homes and 0 rooms. Whole homes are about 1.8% of the town's homes.
Airbnb only, as at Jun 2026; other platforms are not included. Active means reviewed in the past 12 months. The share is against private dwellings at the 2021 Census.
Crime in the Sorell council area
Crime recorded across the whole council area over the 12 months to Jul 2026, not in Carlton alone. Tasmania Police publish by council, not by suburb.
| Type | Count | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| All offences | 458 | 25.3 |
| Assault | 74 | 4.1 |
| Assault in a public place | 17 | 0.9 |
| Home burglary | 8 | 0.4 |
| Stolen vehicles | 28 | 1.5 |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.2 |
| Serious crime | 15 | 0.8 |
| Public order incidents | 396 | 21.9 |
| Family violence order breaches | 19 | 1.0 |
| Police family violence order breaches | 37 | 2.0 |
Rates use the council’s 18,108 residents. The latest month is preliminary and may be revised.
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20252 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the town carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1989–2024Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 2.4 km
- Rate
- -0.47 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -18.4 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
One school serves Carlton, but none have published comparable ratings yet.
Primary
Walkability
Carlton is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Carlton.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 6.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 4.0 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 2.4 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 13.1 hours
- Direct to CBD (peak)
- 1 min wait
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Carlton.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 13%
- Premises covered
- 659
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Sorell: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this town alone — this town's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 5 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 2 different deciles — a narrow range, so the average describes the town closely.
Carlton is home to about 1,400 residents, with a median age of 38, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $74,000 a year, with unemployment at 3.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
1,363
Median Age
38
Median Household Income
$74,100/yr
Census Median Rent
$350/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,347/mo
Avg Household Size
2.4
Median Personal Income
$38,792/yr
Unemployment Rate
3.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
17.7%
Total Dwellings
514
Owner-Occupier Rate
83.1%
Houses
99.4%
Rental Stress
24.6%
Mortgage Stress
21.8%
Work From Home
10.4%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 82.2%
- English Spoken at Home
- 88.6%
- Employment Rate
- 58.1%
- Completed Year 12
- 32.8%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
8 residents (0.6%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 1,281 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
26% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (162 of 631).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,598 a year through Sorell based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 74%
- Residential 16%
- Environmental 8%
- Zones under 1% 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the town around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Sorell
In the year to August 2026, 169 new dwellings were approved across Sorell. That mix is 165 houses and 4 units. Approvals are up 345.5% on the same period a year earlier.
Climate & Setting
from Hobart Airport West, 12.7 kmDry climate — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 71 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 2.3 km
- 3.2 km to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 460 mm
- 83 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 22.7°C
- 2 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 4.8°C
- 2 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the town centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
EV adoption
In postcode 7173, 63 of 7,288 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.2% (91 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 7173, 1,281 rooftop-solar systems totalling 7.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 3,863 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 97 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$20,000 for new homes.
$20,000 for transactions commencing 1 July 2026 - 30 June 2027. THE AMOUNT MOVES EVERY YEAR AND THE SRO PUBLISHES THE TABLE: $30,000 (FY2025-26), $10,000 (FY2024-25), $30,000 (Apr 2021 - Jun 2024). We held $10,000 until 2026-09-18, which was the FY2024-25 figure — two years stale, and wrong in both directions in between. Nothing is published beyond 30 June 2027, so this is due again then regardless of the 1 July sweep. No purchase-price cap is STATED on the eligibility pages (an absence, not an explicit "no cap"); the Grant Guideline PDF was not read. Eligible new builds include substantially renovated homes and kit homes. Completion within 24 months of the transaction start date, or the grant drops to $10,000. Separate from the grant: the first home buyer duty exemption on ESTABLISHED homes up to $750,000 closed for settlements after 30 June 2026.
Mortgage repayments
Property transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with State Revenue Office of Tasmania
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Rebecca White Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rebecca White | 61.6% | 38.4% | +10.7 |
| 2022 | Brian Mitchell | 50.9% | 49.1% | +4.3 |
| 2019 | Brian Mitchell | 55.2% | 44.8% | -1.4 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact town's voters across time.
State Electorate
Elected at the 2025 election:
- Guy Barnett Liberal Party
- Jane Howlett Liberal Party
- Tabatha Badger Tasmanian Greens
- Jen Butler Australian Labor Party
- Brian Mitchell Australian Labor Party
- Mark Shelton Liberal Party
- Carlo Di Falco Shooters, Fishers, Farmers TAS
| Year | Seats won |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 Liberal Party · 2 Australian Labor Party · 1 Tasmanian Greens · 1 Shooters, Fishers, Farmers TAS |
| 2024 | 3 Liberal Party · 2 Australian Labor Party · 1 Jacqui Lambie Network · 1 Tasmanian Greens |
A vacancy here is filled by a recount of the original votes, not a by-election, so a member listed may since have been replaced. Results: Tasmanian Electoral Commission.
Looking at a specific address in Carlton?
Every figure above is a town average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 1,363 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Carlton
Is Carlton a safe place to live?
TAS does not publish suburb-level crime statistics, so there is no crime figure for Carlton.
What natural hazards affect Carlton?
Carlton has a high recorded bushfire history (89/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are town-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Carlton a good place to live?
Carlton has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (36/100), ranked against other TAS suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Carlton?
Carlton, TAS had a population of 1,363 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Carlton, TAS?
The postcode for Carlton, TAS is 7173.
How far is Carlton from Hobart?
Carlton is 42 km from Hobart CBD by road, about 42 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Carlton?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Carlton was $74,100 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Carlton?
The median advertised rent in Carlton is $530 a week for houses (3 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Carlton?
The median age of residents in Carlton was 38 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Carlton at risk of bushfire?
Carlton has a high recorded bushfire history (89/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the town relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Carlton?
There is 1 school inside the Carlton boundary, none of which has enough NAPLAN and ICSEA data for a quality band.
What is the weather like in Carlton?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Carlton, Hobart Airport West (12.7 km away), summer days average 22.7°C, winter nights 4.8°C, 460 mm of rain a year over 83 rainy days, and 2 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Carlton?
First-home buyers in TAS may be eligible for $20,000 towards new homes. The grant is administered by State Revenue Office of Tasmania; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Carlton belong to?
Carlton sits within the Sorell local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Carlton?
The average residential rates bill through Sorell is $1,598 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Carlton?
Across Sorell, 169 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 345.5% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Carlton in?
Carlton sits within the federal Division of Lyons, currently held by Rebecca White (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- Short-stay rentals · Jun 2026
- State electorate · 2025
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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