Howrah, TAS
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
Howrah is a beachside suburb on Hobart's Eastern Shore, in the City of Clarence, lying east of Bellerive with views across the River Derwent to the city from Howrah Beach. Clarence Street runs through its centre, separating the hillside homes from the beachside flats. The suburb takes its name from Howrah House, a property established on the Clarence Plains in the 1830s by a retired Indian Army officer, who borrowed the name from Howrah, a place near Calcutta in India. Long a quiet rural district, it was formally gazetted as a locality in 1963 and has since grown into one of the Eastern Shore's larger residential suburbs, with Wentworth Park a hub for local sport and Shoreline Plaza its main shopping centre.
More advantaged than the national average
Howrah is more socio-economically advantaged than about 69% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1021, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Howrah a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Around the national middle
A weighted blend of the 2 components we can score for Howrah from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
69/100More advantaged than the national average
More advantaged than the national average — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (69/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Housing affordability
20/100Less affordable than the national median
Median weekly rent was $400 at the 2021 Census — more affordable than about 20% of suburbs we can compare. Housing data only, no valuations. · ABS Census 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Howrah at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 9,545
- Median age
- 43
- Median weekly household income
- $1,690
- SEIFA score
- 1021
- Local government area
- Clarence
- Coordinates
- -42.8796, 147.4081
Map of Howrah
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Housing & property in Howrah
What it costs to live in Howrah and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median rent
- $400
- per week
- Median mortgage
- $1,690
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 80%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 18%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Howrah demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Howrah demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Howrah using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is young adults (25–44) at 26% and 15% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 1,574 | 16% |
| Youth (15–24) | 913 | 10% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 2,468 | 26% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 2,238 | 23% |
| Seniors (65+) | 2,353 | 25% |
Share of the 9,546 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 1,699 | 44% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 1,384 | 36% |
| Rented | 708 | 18% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 3,653 | 95% |
| Townhouses & semis | 181 | 5% |
| Flats & apartments | 4 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 3,841 occupied private dwellings in Howrah.
- Average household size
- 2.4 people
- Median weekly family income
- $2,097
- Median weekly personal income
- $865
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 1,406 (15%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 866 (9%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 240 (3%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 4,428 (58%)
- Labour-force participation
- 61.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%
- Employed full-time
- 2,652
- Employed part-time
- 1,722
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
Weather and climate in Howrah
Based on 2014–2023 records, the warmest month in Howrah is January (average daytime high around 19.3°C) and the coolest is August (around 12.1°C). The area receives roughly 619 mm of rain across the year.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 19.3°C | 14.7°C | 53 mm |
| Feb | 19.2°C | 14.7°C | 41 mm |
| Mar | 18.3°C | 13.9°C | 55 mm |
| Apr | 16.6°C | 12.4°C | 43 mm |
| May | 14.3°C | 10.5°C | 58 mm |
| Jun | 12.6°C | 9.1°C | 52 mm |
| Jul | 12°C | 8.4°C | 41 mm |
| Aug | 12.1°C | 8.1°C | 48 mm |
| Sep | 13.4°C | 9.2°C | 44 mm |
| Oct | 14.6°C | 10.3°C | 67 mm |
| Nov | 15.9°C | 11.8°C | 55 mm |
| Dec | 17.6°C | 13.1°C | 62 mm |
Climate normals, 2014–2023 (Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis).
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Common questions about Howrah
Is Howrah a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage and housing affordability, Howrah rates 53/100 overall (Around the national middle). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
What is the median rent in Howrah?
At the 2021 Census, the median weekly rent in Howrah was $400, and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,690. These are official ABS Census figures — StreetScout publishes housing data only, with no property valuations or agent referrals.
Where is Howrah?
Howrah is a suburb of Tasmania, Australia, in the Clarence local government area.
What is the population of Howrah?
At the 2021 Census, Howrah had a population of about 9,545.
Is Howrah an advantaged area?
Howrah has an ABS SEIFA score of 1021, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 69 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 69% of Australian suburbs.
What is the weather like in Howrah?
Howrah has average daytime highs of about 15.5°C and overnight lows of about 11.4°C, with roughly 619 mm of rain across the year (based on 2014–2023 climate normals).
How big is Howrah?
Howrah is one of the most populous suburbs in Tasmania — the 5th-largest by usual resident population at the 2021 Census (about 9,545 usual residents).
Does Howrah have high household incomes?
Howrah has one of the highest median weekly household incomes in Tasmania — the 18th-highest among suburbs with at least 1,000 residents at the 2021 Census ($1,690 per week).
Where Howrah ranks
Howrah appears in these data-driven guides — each a transparent sort on a single ABS figure shown on this page.
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