Boat Harbour

16.8% of Boat Harbour's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Tas..

100 family households lived in Boat Harbour; 32.0% were couple families and 9.0% were one-parent families.

32.0% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Tas. average.

Boat Harbour had 339 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

43.1% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

Separate houses made up 100.0% of occupied private dwellings in Boat Harbour.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

48.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Tas. average.

36.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

14.4% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Tas. average.

The average household in Boat Harbour had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 24.8% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

Two-person households represented 42.1%, while 21.8% had four or more usual residents.

16.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of Tas. rate.

70.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.1% walked or cycled.

2.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Tas. rate.

One-car households formed 21.9% of the total.

79.7% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.5% were at the same address five years earlier, while 35.5% reported a different address.

14.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Tas. average.

94.7% of residents used only English at home.

2.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

14.7% of Boat Harbour's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.3% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 94.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 51.9% of ancestry responses in Boat Harbour.

Australian ancestry made up 42.5% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

20.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

Managers accounted for 22.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.5% of workers, and education and training employed 10.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.4%, compared with 55.7% across Rest of Tas..

29.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.0%, compared with 5.6% across Rest of Tas..

59.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.0% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.3% reported asthma, 12.4% arthritis and 5.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

23.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 6.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 36.2%.

Median household income was $1,511 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,105.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $300 per week.

Working from home was 16.2% in Boat Harbour, compared with 7.9% across Rest of Tas..

Outright ownership was 48.8% locally and 41.1% across Rest of Tas.. That is well above the Rest of Tas. average.

Renting accounted for 14.4% in Boat Harbour, against 25.6% across Rest of Tas..