Tāmaki

Template:For Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Stack begin Template:Infobox New Zealand suburb Template:Adjacent place Template:Stack end Tāmaki is a small suburb of East Auckland, 11 kilometres from the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located by the banks of the estuarial Tāmaki River, which is a southern arm of the Hauraki Gulf. The suburb is between the suburbs of Point England to the north and Panmure to the south.

Tāmaki is under the local governance of Auckland Council. It is part of the much larger Tāmaki parliamentary electorate.

History

In the 1940s Tāmaki was chosen to be an area for large state housing development and continued to have state houses built for almost 20 years.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Demographics

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Template:Historical populations Tāmaki had a population of 4,167 in the 2023 New Zealand census, a decrease of 108 people (−2.5%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 213 people (5.4%) since the 2013 census. There were 2,073 males, 2,085 females and 12 people of other genders in 1,272 dwellings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 3.4% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 924 people (22.2%) aged under 15 years, 936 (22.5%) aged 15 to 29, 1,887 (45.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 423 (10.2%) aged 65 or older.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 30.8% European (Pākehā); 22.5% Māori; 40.1% Pasifika; 23.3% Asian; 2.2% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 1.5% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 90.5%, Māori language by 4.5%, Samoan by 7.3%, and other languages by 28.3%. No language could be spoken by 3.0% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.4%. The percentage of people born overseas was 39.2, compared with 28.8% nationally.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

Religious affiliations were 46.1% Christian, 2.3% Hindu, 3.0% Islam, 3.1% Māori religious beliefs, 2.0% Buddhist, 0.4% New Age, and 1.7% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 34.3%, and 7.7% of people did not answer the census question.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

Of those at least 15 years old, 753 (23.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 1,350 (41.6%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 1,158 (35.7%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. 264 people (8.1%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,620 (50.0%) people were employed full-time, 318 (9.8%) were part-time, and 156 (4.8%) were unemployed.<ref name="Census 2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Individual statistical areas

Name	Area (km2)	Population	Density (per km2)	Dwellings	Median age	Median income
Tamaki West	0.63	2,592	4,114	789	32.8 years	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Tamaki East	0.66	1,575	2,386	483	32.5 years	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
New Zealand					38.1 years	$41,500

Education

Tāmaki Primary School is a contributing primary school (years 1–8) with a roll of Template:NZ school roll data.<ref>Template:TKI</ref> Sommerville School is a school for students with special educational needs with a roll of Template:NZ school roll data.<ref>Template:TKI</ref> These schools are adjacent to each other. Both schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of Template:NZ school roll data

Volcano

To the west of the suburb is Mount Wellington, a 137-metre volcanic peak which is part of the Auckland volcanic field, and which was formed by an eruption around 9,000 years ago.

Related names

By a quirk of geographical naming, the suburb of East Tāmaki is several kilometres to the south of Tāmaki because it takes its name from being on the eastern side of the Tāmaki River, rather than from its relationship to Tāmaki the suburb.

The name Tāmaki is of contested origin. It is an ancient Polynesian word for battle; it can also mean full of people, i.e., heavily populated – a prescient name given the Māori name of the heavily populated Auckland isthmus in Māori is Tāmaki-makau-rau. A third possible origin of the names, Tā-Maki, means successful attack by Maki, which was the name of a local tribal chief.Template:Citation needed