Leeka TAS 7255
23 addresses · 1 street
Bass Electorate › Flinders (Tas.) LGA › Leeka · 334 km from Hobart
Living Here
Leeka is a suburb of Tasmania, home to about 13 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $725 a week, with median rent near $138 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Scottsdale - Bridport statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Leeka itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 38.3% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020
Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 38.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 88.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 14.3% · Labour-force participation 53.8%
Population by age in Leeka
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Leeka
| House | 11 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Leeka
| Australian | 9 |
|---|---|
| English | 6 |
| Irish | 5 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Leeka
| Owned | 4 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Leeka
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Leeka
| Car | 3 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
888 bird observations recorded near Leeka — most often seen:
- Yellow-throated Honeyeater (66)
- Tasmanian Green Rosella (61)
- Flinders Island Superb Fairy-wren (60)
- Southern Tasmanian Thornbill (59)
- Flinders Island Black Currawong (53)
- Tasmanian Grey Shrike-thrush (49)
- Tasmanian Grey Fantail (44)
- Southern Forest Raven (43)
- Pacific Gull (33)
- Flinders Island White-browed Scrubwren (30)
- Eastern Crescent Honeyeater (29)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (29)
- Bass Strait New Holland Honeyeater (27)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Leeka
- Laughing Kookaburra (27)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (23)
- Little Penguin (22)
- Silvereye (22)
- Coastal Spotted Pardalote (21)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (21)
- Silver Gull (21)
- Cape Barren Goose (18)
- Tasmanian Golden Whistler (18)
- Tasmanian Scarlet Robin (16)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (15)
- Forest Raven (14)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (14)
- White-fronted Chat (14)
- Hooded Plover (13)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (13)
- Tasmanian Silvereye (13)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Leeka:
- Killiecrankie (7 km)
- Lughrata (8.8 km)
- Emita (13.5 km)
- Palana (16.7 km)
- Wingaroo (18.1 km)
- Blue Rocks (19.3 km)
- Memana (23.2 km)
- Whitemark (28.5 km)
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Streets
- West End Road (23)