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Badger Head TAS

Badger Head

Located in the Devonport area of Tasmania, Badger Head is in the West Tamar local government area, and within the electoral seat of Bass.

Badger Head is a small rural locality within West Tamar, in the Western Tamar Valley region.

Badger Head is 258 kilometres from the capital city of Hobart and can be reached within three and a half hours of travel via National Highway 1.

Badger Head at a glance

Postcode 7270
Latitude -41.1291591
Longitude 146.731436
Altitude (metres above sea level)

Population of Badger Head TAS

At the 2021 national census, the population of 7270 (Including Badger Head) was 4370 people. Out of those, 2203 were male and 2169 were female.

526 (12.04%) of those people were born outside Australia, and the remaining 3470 people were born in Australia. 160 (3.66%) of these people are Indigenous Australians.

Map of Badger Head

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