Hobart Population 2025

Hobart is the capital of the Australian island state of Tasmania, located on the stream of the River Derwent in the south-east. Hobart population in 2025 is estimated to be 254,504, covers city area of 1,695.5 sq km (654.6 sq mi), and most populous city Tasmania province, and seventh populous city of Australia. Greater Hobart is the metropolitan area of the City of Hobart, Almost half of the population are Tasmanians. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart is the financial and administrative hub of Tasmania. Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney.

Description	Year	Hobart	Australia
Estimated resident population	2020	238,834	25,697,298
Working age population (aged 15-64 years) (%)	2019	64	65.4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population	2016	10,323	798,365
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Speakers(%)	2016	1	10
Persons born overseas	2016	30,577	6,149,388
Children enrolled in preschool	2019	2,223	135,301
Age pension	2019	26,960	2,533,359
Median total income ($)	2018	47,770	49,805
Total number of businesses	2020	17,568	2,422,404
Number of jobs	2018	179,418	19,563,645
Taxpayers who report having private health insurance	2018	82,220	8,124,494
Total Passenger vehicles	2020	156,509	14,679,246
Land area (ha)	2020	169,536	768,812,632

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Population Ranking
Religion

Hobart Population Ranking & Density

The Population density of Hobart is 141 persons per sq km. The median age of male is 38 and female is 41 in 2019. Total 150,668 are Working force of Hobart city. Hobart population in 2023 is estimated to be 253,241, population in 2022 is estimated to be 252,031, Population of Hobart in 2021 is estimated to be 251,047.

Description	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total Population	223,502	225,913	229,260	232,691	236,224	238,834
Population density (persons/sq km)	132	133	135	137	139	141
Male	111,067	112,465	114,081	115,775	117,517	-
Female	112,435	113,448	115,179	116,916	118,619	-
Median age - males (years)	38	38	38	38	38	-
Median age - females (years)	41	41	41	41	41	-
Median age - persons (years)	40	40	40	40	40	-
Working age population (aged 15-64 years)	144,575	145,309	146,843	148,758	150,668	-
Working age population (aged 15-64 years) (%)	65	64	64	64	64	-

Births and Fertility

Total Births in Hobart is estimated to be 717 in 2019 and Fertility rate is 1.78 which is decreased from 1.91 in 2016 census.

Description	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Births	2,608	2,768	2,564	2,535	2 717
Total fertility rate	1.91	1.9	1.83	1.78	1.72
Deaths	1,860	1,888	1,986	1,773	2,000
Standardised death rate (per 1000 population)	6.3	6.2	6.2	5.9	5.9

Immigration to Hobart

According to 2020 Census, 2,113 is the Net Overseas migration, out of these 4,045 are Overseas arrivals and 1,932 are departures. -435 people are net internal migration, out of these 7,205 are internal arrivals and 7,640 are departures.

Migration/Year	2017	2018	2019	2020
Internal arrivals	7,701	8,690	8,658	7,205
Internal departures	6,430	7,422	7,672	7,640
Net internal migration	1,271	1,268	986	-435
Overseas arrivals	2,896	3,150	3,620	4,045
Overseas departures	1,497	1,513	1,770	1,932
Net overseas migration	1,399	1,637	1,850	2,113

Overseas Born

6.8 percent of the Overseas population are born in Europe, 1.3% are born in South East Asia, 0.7% are born in Central Asia, 0.8% are born in Africa and 8.8% are born in Americas.

Overseas norn/Year	Percent (2011)	Percent (2016)
Oceania and Antarctica (excluding Australia)	1.1	1
North-West Europe	6.1	5.6
Southern and Eastern Europe	1.2	1
North Africa and the Middle East	0.4	0.5
South-East Asia	1.1	1.3
North-East Asia	1.1	1.6
Southern and Central Asia	0.7	1.2
Americas	0.8	0.8
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.8	0.8
Total born overseas	13.2	13.8

Australian citizenship

88.4% of the Hobart population are Australian Citizen, 5.2% are not a citizen and 6.3% are not stated according to 2016 Australian Bureau Statistics.

Citizenship/Year	Percent (2011)	Percent (2016)
Australian citizen (%)	90.1	88.4
Not an Australian citizen (%)	4.8	5.2
Australian citizenship - not stated (%)	5.1	6.3

Income levels in Hobart

Personal income	2015	2016	2017	2018
Employee income earners	109,712	110,477	114,304	117,223
Employee income earners - median age (years)	40	40	40	39
Total employee income ($)	5,628	5,813	6,086	6,400
Median employee income ($)	45,420	46,800	47,230	48,423
Mean employee income ($)	51,298	52,621	53,241	54,597

According to 2018 census estimates, 117,223 are total employee income earners, Median employee income is $48,423. 30.8% earn below $500, 26.1% of the population earn between $500 to $1000, 22.6% earn personal income between $1000 to $2000 per week, 5.6% earn more than $2000 per week.

Personal earnings	Percent (2016)
$1-$499 per week	30.8
$500-$999 per week	26.1
$1000-$1999 per week	22.6
$2000-$2999 per week	3.7
$3000 or more per week	1.9
Nil income	6.7
Negative income	0.3
Not stated	7.8

Education

46.4% of Hobart population are with High school education of 12 grade increased from 43.1% of 2011 census, followed by 25.9% are 10 grade and 8.4% are studied upto 11th grade.

High School Education	Percent (2011)	Percent (2016)
12 or equivalent	43.1	46.4
11 or equivalent	8.6	8.4
10 or equivalent	27.6	25.9
9 or equivalent	7.5	6.7
8 or below	5	4.1
Did not go to school	0.4	0.5
Not stated	7.7	8

Higher Education	Percent (2011)	Percent (2016)
Non-school qualifications	54.9	58.6
Postgraduate degree	3.5	4.7
Graduate diploma/graduate certificate	2	2.4
Bachelor degree	13.2	14.1
Advanced diploma/diploma	7.1	7.9
Certificate	18.8	19.7
Inadequately described	10.2	9.8

Marital Staus

According to 2016 census stats, Social marital status & registered marital status of persons aged 15 years and over.

Social Marital Status	2011	2016
Registered marriage	70,466	70,238
De facto marriage	18,358	20,560
Not married	65,442	69,548
Married (%)	45.2	44.1
Never married (%)	35.3	36.3
Widowed (%)	6.3	6
Divorced (%)	9.9	10.2
Separated (%)	3.2	3.3

Religion wise Hobart Population

According to 2016 ABS Census, 47.3% are the most followed religion of Christianity, followed by Buddhism with 0.9%, Islam with 0.7%, Hinduism with 0.7%, Judaism with 0.1% and 40.3% are with no religion beliefs and 9.3% are not stated.

Religion	Percent (2011)	Percent (2016)
Buddhism	0.9	0.9
Christianity	58.7	47.3
Hinduism	0.4	0.7
Islam	0.5	0.7
Judaism	0.1	0.1
Other religions	0.5	0.5
Other spiritual beliefs	0.9	0.2
No religion, secular beliefs	29.4	40.3
Not stated	8.6	9.3