Suburb profile

Mount Rumney TAS 7170

Mount Rumney is located in the Hobart region of Tasmania, postcode 7170. It has 147 properties across 8 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Mount Rumney, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Mount Rumney

Mount Rumney, TAS 7170, sits in the Hobart region and neighbours Acton Park, Cambridge and Rokeby. Its 8 streets hold 147 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Cambridge area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census Cambridge had 8,573 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.8 people. Median household income was $2,191 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,800 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 3,021 dwellings, 2,910 were separate houses, 61 semi-detached, 6 flats and 37 other. Tenure split into 1,230 owned outright, 1,444 owned with a mortgage and 230 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Mount Rumney

  • 8,573Peoplelive in the area
  • 43Median ageyears
  • $2,191Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,910
  • Townhouses and semis61
  • Flats and apartments6
  • Other37

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,800a month
  • Household size2.8people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,230Owned with a mortgage 1,444Rented 230Other 117

Streets in Mount Rumney

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.