The area has been typically associated with high crime and
unemployment, but this trend is beginning to reverse, probably in part due to increasing levels of home ownership during the Hobart
housing market boom of 2002. Houses in the area that were valued in the low $20,000 range are now being valued at over seven times this figure. The area has a historic church, with a traditional British picket-fence cricket ground and the Rokeby Historic Trail. Rokeby has a skate park which was built around 2001. It is also regarded as one of the best skate parks in the state. It attracted national and international professional skateboarders in a competition held there in January 2009, with $50,000 prize money on offer. Rokeby is also home to the Tasmania Police Academy, a training academy for recruits of
Tasmania Police. == References ==