Kettering, TAS
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
Kettering is a small harbour town on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in southern Tasmania, about 32 kilometres south of Hobart in the Channel district of Kingborough. The Nuenonne people of Bruny Island are recorded as the traditional custodians of the area. The French navigator Bruni d'Entrecasteaux charted the channel in 1792, and the settlement, first called Little Oyster Cove, was renamed Kettering in 1892. Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it lived on orchards, timber and scallop fishing, sheltered in its quiet cove. Today Kettering is best known as the departure point for the vehicle ferry to Bruny Island, and its two marinas berth several hundred boats. Boating, aquaculture, apple growing and a longstanding community of artists give the town its character.
More advantaged than the national average
Kettering is more socio-economically advantaged than about 65% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1013, 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 Kettering 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 Kettering 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
65/100More advantaged than the national average
More advantaged than the national average — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (65/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Housing affordability
26/100Less affordable than the national median
Median weekly rent was $365 at the 2021 Census — more affordable than about 26% 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.
Kettering at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 943
- Median age
- 51
- Median weekly household income
- $1,412
- SEIFA score
- 1013
- Local government area
- Kingborough
- Coordinates
- -43.1274, 147.2224
Map of Kettering
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Housing & property in Kettering
What it costs to live in Kettering and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median rent
- $365
- per week
- Median mortgage
- $1,517
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 88%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 10%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Kettering demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Kettering demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Kettering 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 mid-life (45–64) at 32% and 21% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 147 | 16% |
| Youth (15–24) | 77 | 8% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 156 | 17% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 297 | 32% |
| Seniors (65+) | 254 | 27% |
Share of the 931 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 191 | 53% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 127 | 35% |
| Rented | 38 | 10% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 348 | 95% |
| Townhouses & semis | 0 | 0% |
| Flats & apartments | 0 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 367 occupied private dwellings in Kettering.
- Average household size
- 2.4 people
- Median weekly family income
- $1,792
- Median weekly personal income
- $690
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 185 (21%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 55 (6%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 40 (4%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 443 (59%)
- Labour-force participation
- 55.6%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.4%
- Employed full-time
- 200
- Employed part-time
- 197
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.
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Common questions about Kettering
Is Kettering 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, Kettering rates 52/100 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 Kettering?
At the 2021 Census, the median weekly rent in Kettering was $365, and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,517. These are official ABS Census figures — StreetScout publishes housing data only, with no property valuations or agent referrals.
Where is Kettering?
Kettering is a suburb of Tasmania, Australia, in the Kingborough local government area.
What is the population of Kettering?
At the 2021 Census, Kettering had a population of about 943.
Is Kettering an advantaged area?
Kettering has an ABS SEIFA score of 1013, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 65 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 65% of Australian suburbs.
Where Kettering ranks
Kettering appears in these data-driven guides — each a transparent sort on a single ABS figure shown on this page.
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