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Kingborough

15,243 residential parcels covering 34.6 km².

Highly restricted land

≈98% of Kingborough’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Kingborough ranks #2 of 7 councils in Hobart, and #8 of 133 capital city councils nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Kingborough. ABS LGA code 63610. Methodology →

Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.

Where Kingborough ranks in Hobart

Kingborough ranks #2 of 7 Hobart-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Kingborough: ≈98% · rank #2 of 7

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Glenorchy≈98%
  2. 2. Kingborough≈98%
  3. 3. Clarence≈98%
  4. 4. Sorell≈94%
  5. ⋯
  6. 6. Hobart≈93%
  7. 7. Derwent Valley≈0%

Low-density

  1. 1. Kingborough≈39%
  2. 2. Hobart≈16%
  3. 3. Sorell≈11%
  4. ⋯
  5. 6. Brighton≈4%
  6. 7. Derwent Valley≈0%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hobart≈9%
  2. 2. Glenorchy≈3%
  3. ⋯
  4. 4. Clarence≈1%
  5. 5. Sorell≈1%
  6. 6. Kingborough≈0%
  7. 7. Derwent Valley≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Glenorchy≈98%
  2. 2. Kingborough≈98%
  3. 3. Clarence≈98%
  4. 4. Hobart≈95%
  5. ⋯
  6. 6. Brighton≈94%
  7. 7. Derwent Valley≈0%

Source: Kingborough ranked against other Hobart-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Suburbs in Kingborough

11 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Kingborough.

  1. Blackmans Bay≈100%
  2. Bonnet Hill≈100%
  3. Electrona≈100%
  4. Fern Tree≈100%
  5. Howden≈100%
  6. Huntingfield≈100%
  7. Kingston Beach≈100%
  8. Margate (Tas.)≈100%
  9. Snug≈100%
  10. Taroona≈100%
  11. Kingston (Tas.)≈94%
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Hobart context

Kingborough ranks #2 of 7 councils in Hobart for highly restricted residential land.

  1. Glenorchy ≈98%
  2. Kingborough ≈98%
  3. Clarence ≈98%
  4. Hobart ≈95%
  5. Sorell ≈94%
  6. Brighton ≈94%
  7. Derwent Valley ≈0%
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Detailed zoning map

Kingborough’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Kingborough

  1. Low-Density Residential<1 km²<0.1%
  2. General Residential7 km²86.4%
  3. Inner Residential1 km²7.2%
  4. Central Business<1 km²1.9%
  5. General Business<1 km²1.2%
  6. Local Business<1 km²2.8%
  7. Urban Mixed Use<1 km²0.5%
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Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.

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