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Lawitta suburb profile

Lawitta is a small, rural-residential locality in Tasmania's Derwent Valley, sitting near New Norfolk and the River Derwent. The area is characterised by rolling paddocks, pockets of native bush and quiet country lanes, offering a low-key, outdoorsy lifestyle for people who value space and privacy. Housing ranges from older timber farmhouses to more recent homes on hobby-acreage blocks, making it popular with families, those seeking a semi-rural change and small-scale growers. Daily conveniences, cafes and community services are found in nearby New Norfolk, while local roads link the locality with the wider Hobart region for work and leisure.

Lawitta property market performance

Like many smaller suburbs, Lawitta has relatively few recent property sales, so there isn't enough data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units. Over the past three months there was one recorded house sale; recent unit sales are too few to report.

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Lawitta demographics

The community has 226 people, a median age of 41 and a median total household income of $1,525 a week, roughly $79,300 a year.

Families are largely couples: 53.8% are couple families without children and 38.5% are couple families with children, while one-parent families make up 7.7%. Together, couple families with and without children account for 92.3% of families.

In Lawitta, owner-occupiers make up 87.8% of homes, split between 52.4% owned outright and 35.4% owned with a mortgage, and rented dwellings comprise 12.2%.

Suburbs near Lawitta

Some popular suburbs near Lawitta include:

  • New Norfolk: a historic riverside town on the River Derwent.
  • Magra: a quiet, semi-rural locality with farmland and bushland.
  • Lachlan: a leafy residential area with garden blocks and native trees.
  • Molesworth: predominantly agricultural, with rolling paddocks and wooded gullies.
  • Dromedary: a hilly, tree-lined suburb with a mix of bush and cleared land.
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