Suburb profile

Port Arthur TAS 7182

Port Arthur is located in the South East Tasmania region of Tasmania, postcode 7182. It has 479 properties across 29 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Port Arthur, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Port Arthur

Port Arthur, TAS 7182, sits in South East Tasmania and neighbours Cape Raoul, Stormlea, Fortescue and Highcroft. Its 29 streets hold 479 properties, 425 of them houses and 54 units.

Census figures are for Forestier - Tasman, an area that covers the suburb. At the 2021 Census it had 2,593 residents, a median age of 57 and an average household of 2 people. Median household income was $863 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,083 a month and the median rent $250 a week. Of 1,144 dwellings, 1,105 were separate houses, 15 semi-detached, 7 flats and 21 other; 647 were owned outright, 275 owned with a mortgage and 165 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Port Arthur

  • 2,593Peoplelive in the area
  • 57Median ageyears
  • $863Median household incomea week
  • $250Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,105
  • Townhouses and semis15
  • Flats and apartments7
  • Other21

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,083a month
  • Household size2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 647Owned with a mortgage 275Rented 165Other 57

Streets in Port Arthur

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.