1,474 of South Hobart's 2,314 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 64 in every 100, against 70 across Tasmania. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| South Hobart | 64% | 1,474 | |
| Tasmania | 70% | 153,199 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, South Hobart (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
Owners still paying it off are often the newer faces in South Hobart: the households asking who does good gutters, where the kids play weekend sport, and whether anyone has a ladder long enough for the second storey.
707 households in South Hobart are a single person. A neighbour who'll take in a parcel, feed the cat or check in after a storm matters more than any app feature. Doorstep is just how you find them.
791 households in South Hobart have paid the place off. Owning outright usually means years on the same street: the neighbours who know which trees drop branches in a storm, when the council clean-up comes round, and who to ask before you knock down a wall.
Give away what you don't need, borrow what you need once, and ask the street a question. Posts come from people who live around South Hobart.
A national gallery of kitchens, gardens and makeovers people are proud of. Show off yours, or steal ideas for the next one.
Ask who your neighbours would call, and find local businesses rated only by people who live nearby. Businesses in South Hobart →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve South Hobart, shown to the members who live nearby.
Doorstep Dating is a separate side of the app for meeting other homeowners. It's off until you switch it on.
1,474 of South Hobart's 2,314 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (64%): 791 owned outright and 683 with a mortgage. Across Tasmania the figure is 70%.
Yes. Doorstep works in every Australian suburb: you join by typing your home suburb, and South Hobart is one of them. Some streets are quieter than others while the area fills up.
No. Doorstep only stores the name of your suburb. There's no GPS involved, and nobody sees your street or address.
Free on the App Store. Type your suburb when you join; nobody ever sees your address.