$621 ▲ +35.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: $457
- 2016: $534
- 2021: $621
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Blackwall · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Weekly earnings in Blackwall have remained consistently low compared to the rest of the country. The typical family earns $1,325 a week, which is well below both the state and national figures. This reflects a local economy where high-income earners are very rare.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Blackwall — lower than 75% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Typical weekly household income is $1,197, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure and well below the Australian average. Personal incomes are also lower than most areas, with the typical person earning $621 a week.
$621 ▲ +35.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,197 ▲ +35.4%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$1,325 ▲ +33.8%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
Very few people here earn high wages, with only 4.2% of residents making $2,000 or more a week. This is well below the national figure of 12.5%, and no households in the area earn $4,000 or more weekly.
4.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
4.9%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Blackwall splits fairly evenly between $650–$1,499 (40%) and $1,500–$2,999 (37%), with Under $650 at 18%.
In Blackwall, Under $650 is the majority at 52%; $650–$1,499 is next at 39%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Blackwall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60053/blackwall/topic/income