What are the largest suburbs in Tasmania?

The top-ranked suburbs are Devonport, Kingston, Sandy Bay, Glenorchy, Howrah, and more, ordered by a category-specific composite score from official government and open data.

What does the index column mean on ranking pages?

The index shows relative strength within the ranking list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader. It is not an overall suburb rating out of 100.

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Largest Suburbs in Tasmania

Suburbs ranked by estimated resident population from the latest ABS ERP release, allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap.

Rank	Suburb	Population
#1	Devonport	14,857
#2	Kingston	13,129
#3	Sandy Bay	12,609
#4	Glenorchy	11,948
#5	Howrah	10,710
#6	Claremont	8,600
#7	Blackmans Bay	7,906
#8	Riverside	7,723
#9	Newnham	7,386
#10	West Hobart	7,054
#11	Ulverstone	6,958
#12	Wynyard	6,692
#13	New Norfolk	6,540
#14	New Town	6,540
#15	Lindisfarne	6,534
#16	Lenah Valley	6,247
#17	Brighton	6,203
#18	South Hobart	5,817
#19	Moonah	5,677
#20	Prospect Vale	5,611
#21	Newstead	5,545
#22	Latrobe	5,415
#23	Bridgewater	5,072
#24	South Launceston	5,019
#25	Trevallyn	4,926
#26	Legana	4,907
#27	Youngtown	4,892
#28	Bellerive	4,849
#29	George Town	4,756
#30	West Ulverstone	4,669
#31	East Devonport	4,632
#32	Old Beach	4,630
#33	Longford	4,505
#34	Rokeby	4,477
#35	West Moonah	4,402
#36	Kings Meadows	4,392
#37	Margate	4,337
#38	Penguin	4,329
#39	West Launceston	4,196
#40	Somerset	4,192
#41	Mowbray	4,128
#42	Ravenswood	3,972
#43	Sorell	3,945
#44	Smithton	3,904
#45	Geilston Bay	3,845
#46	Norwood	3,796
#47	Midway Point	3,707
#48	Hobart	3,601
#49	Perth	3,521
#50	Invermay	3,474

Population is ABS Estimated Resident Population allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap. Not an official ABS suburb-level figure.

Last updated 29 July 2026 at 2:21 am AEST

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