Badger Head is a locality and small rural community in the local government area of West Tamar, in the Western Tamar Valley region of Tasmania.

Bass Strait forms the north-western and part of the northern boundaries.

[2] The 2016 census determined a population of 41 for the state suburb of Badger Head.

[3] The C721 route (Badger Head Road) intersects with the West Tamar Highway at the south-eastern extremity of the locality.

It passes through to the north-west, where it terminates in the Badger Head township.