Bothwell is in Central Highlands (Tas.) LGA, TAS, postcode 7030, with population 499.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
73% of homes here are owner-occupied and 15% rented, with 3% of landlords negatively geared.
73% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 16% · TAS median 20%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 66% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $969/mo, while renters pay about $858/mo — owning runs $111/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 28% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $660/wk income).
Getting to work: 72% drive, 0% public transport, 11% walk or cycle, 12% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Active Airbnb listings point-mapped to this suburb from Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0). Occupancy and revenue are estimates from Inside Airbnb's San Francisco model (review-rate proxy, minimum-stay assumption, occupancy capped at 70%) — they are gross, indicative, and not a guarantee of returns. Short-stay letting is subject to state and local regulation.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Central Highlands SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Bothwell is a small, quiet locality in Tasmania within the Central Highlands (Tas.) local government area (postcode 7030). It is home to about 499 residents, with an older-leaning population and a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $64K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. TAS employment has moved -1.2% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. TAS also had 17 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $198 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $969.
Bothwell is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 893, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
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Official annual SA2 price series matched to suburb pages as fallback coverage
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Bothwell is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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If Bothwell feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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Bothwell is in the Central Highlands (Tas.) Local Government Area, TAS, postcode 7030. Council-level context for Central Highlands (Tas.) LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Bothwell is $198/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.