Central Highlands Council

LGAs around Central Highlands Council:
West Coast	Meander Valley	Northern Midlands
West Coast	Central Highlands Council	Southern Midlands
West Coast	Derwent Valley	Southern Midlands

The Central Highlands Council is a Local Government Area in the central highland region of Tasmania.

1 Parks and reserves
2 Towns
3 Population
4 References
5 External links
6 Further reading

[edit] Parks and reserves

It covers most of the mountainous centre of the state, also known as the Central Plateau which contains the Central Plateau Conservation Area including sections of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, as well as the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, and Walls of Jerusalem National Park. Other smaller reserves of different status occur in the region as well.

[edit] Towns

The population of the area is small and quite decentralised, resulting in a large number of small towns - Bothwell, Bronte Park, Derwent Bridge, Ouse, Liawenee, Miena and Tarraleah. Some of these towns were founded as support sites for workers on the hydro-electric dams scattered along the upper Derwent River. Main towns are considered as Bothwell and Hamilton.

[edit] Population

Central Highlands Council have the second highest birth rate in all of Tasmania and one of the highest birth rates for all of Australia. The TFR was estimated at 3.20 in 2006. Source. Only George Town with a TFR of 3.75 had a higher birth rate than Central Highlands. [1]