Description
Gagebrook is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Brighton in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania.
Gagebrook is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Brighton in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of the town of Brighton. The 2016 census provides a population of 1440 for the state suburb of Gagebrook.
It is one of the northernmost suburbs of Hobart, located near the eastern shore of the Derwent River between the suburbs of Bridgewater and Old Beach.
History
Gagebrook was gazetted as a locality in 1977.
The suburb, like its adjacent suburb of Bridgewater (also built up of mass-public housing in the 1970s) has a reputation as a lower socio-economic area. Like the rest of Hobarts' public housing suburbs, many public housing stock have been sold privately.
Gagebrook has two primary schools: Herdman's Cove Primary School and Gagebrook Primary School(both public).
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Population: 1,001 - 10,000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 1.345 km2
Elevation: 11 to 50 metres
Town elevation: 33 m
Population number: 1,440
Local Government Area: Brighton Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Gagebrook, Tasmania