Nelson Bay TAS 7330
19 addresses · 3 streets
Braddon Electorate › Circular Head LGA › Nelson Bay · 293 km from Hobart
Living Here
Nelson Bay is a suburb of Tasmania, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 69. The typical household earns around $1,249 a week. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Aboriginal, Chinese. 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 North West statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Nelson Bay 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: 10.7% 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 | 10.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 36.6% |
Demographics
Top ancestries in Nelson Bay
| Australian | 4 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
| English | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,437 bird observations recorded near Nelson Bay — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (147)
- White-fronted Chat (87)
- Tasmanian Superb Fairy-wren (79)
- Common Starling (69)
- Tasmanian Black Currawong (65)
- Southern Forest Raven (61)
- Giinbaywarraymal (59)
- Pacific Gull (59)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (59)
- Silver Gull (49)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (48)
- East Coast Pacific Gull (47)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (44)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Nelson Bay
- White-faced Heron (44)
- Tasmanian Australian Pipit (42)
- Hooded Plover (40)
- Forest Raven (39)
- Superb Fairy-wren (37)
- Southern Sooty Oystercatcher (36)
- Eastern Crescent Honeyeater (35)
- Tasmanian Grey Shrike-thrush (33)
- Tasmanian Silvereye (33)
- Blue-winged Parrot (30)
- Shy Albatross (29)
- Tasmanian Native-hen (29)
- Masked Lapwing (28)
- Red-capped Plover (28)
- Australasian Gannet (27)
- Great Cormorant (27)
- Swamp Harrier (27)
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 Nelson Bay:
- Couta Rocks (3.7 km)
- Arthur River (9.8 km)
- Temma (10 km)
- Redpa (23 km)
- Marrawah (23.3 km)
- Togari (28.8 km)
- Roger River (32.5 km)
- Brittons Swamp (33.1 km)
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Streets
- Nelson Bay Road (11)
- Sarah Anne Rocks Road (6)
- Sundown Point Road (2)
