It is located about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south-east of the town of Burnie.

Bass Strait forms part of the northern boundary of the locality.

[2] The 2021 census recorded a population of 61 for the state suburb of Howth.

The locality was named in 1900 for Howth, a village and outer suburb of Dublin in Ireland, the home town of an early settler family.

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