Suburb profile
Birchs Bay TAS 7162
Birchs Bay is located in the South East Tasmania region of Tasmania, postcode 7162. It has 76 properties across 6 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Birchs Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Birchs Bay
Birchs Bay, TAS 7162, sits in South East Tasmania and neighbours Flowerpot, Woodbridge and Garden Island Creek. Its 6 streets hold 76 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for Bruny Island - Kettering, which had 3,447 residents, a median age of 54 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,296 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,450 a month and the median rent $300 a week. Of 1,366 dwellings, 1,323 were separate houses, 10 semi-detached and 33 other; 744 were owned outright, 416 owned with a mortgage and 143 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Birchs Bay
- 3,447Peoplelive in the area
- 54Median ageyears
- $1,296Median household incomea week
- $300Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,323
- Townhouses and semis10
- Other33
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,450a month
- Household size2.2people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Birchs Bay
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.