Suburb profile

Hillcrest TAS 7320

Hillcrest is located in the West and North West Tasmania region of Tasmania, postcode 7320. It has 607 properties across 18 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Hillcrest, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Hillcrest

Hillcrest, TAS 7320, sits in West and North West Tasmania and neighbours Acton, Shorewell Park, Burnie and Montello. Its 18 streets hold 607 properties, 490 of them houses and 117 units.

Census figures are for the Burnie - Wivenhoe area, which has 3,779 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income is $1,089 a week, the median mortgage repayment $961 a month and the median rent $240 a week. Of 1,655 dwellings, 1,398 are separate houses, 154 semi-detached and 89 flats, with 11 other; 512 are owned outright, 469 owned with a mortgage and 639 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Hillcrest

  • 3,779Peoplelive in the area
  • 40Median ageyears
  • $1,089Median household incomea week
  • $240Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,398
  • Townhouses and semis154
  • Flats and apartments89
  • Other11

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$961a month
  • Household size2.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 512Owned with a mortgage 469Rented 639Other 35

Streets in Hillcrest

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.