Gagebrook
Gagebrook is a residential locality in the local government area of Brighton in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania, Australia. The locality is about south of the town of Brighton. The 2016 census recorded 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 has a reputation as a lower socio-economic area. Like the rest of Hobart's 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.