Cape Barren Island is in Flinders (Tas.) LGA, TAS, postcode 7257, with population 64.
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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.
This suburb 12% · TAS median 20%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 83% of AU suburbs
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Flinders and Cape Barren Islands SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Cape Barren Island (postcode 7257) is a sparsely populated locality in Tasmania within the Flinders (Tas.) local government area. The area has roughly 64 residents and a settled, mature resident base, with a median age of 51. Households earn a median income of $38K per year, with an average household size of 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 community & personal service, managers, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward education and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, Australian, English.
The median weekly rent is $85 (Census 2021).
Cape Barren Island is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 703, 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
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Cape Barren Island 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.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, transport stops, crime coverage, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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If Cape Barren Island feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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Cape Barren Island is in the Flinders (Tas.) Local Government Area, TAS, postcode 7257. Council-level context for Flinders (Tas.) LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Cape Barren Island is $85/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.