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Tawa is a residential neighbourhood in the
Mill Woods Mill Woods is a residential area in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Located in southeast Edmonton, Mill Woods is bounded by Whitemud Drive ( Highway 14) to the north, 91 Street to the west, 34 Street to the east, and Anthony Henday ...
area of south
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. It is a newer neighbourhood, with most of the development occurring in the early 1990s. The
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is located in the neighbourhood as is the Edmonton Police Service's South East Division Station. Tawa is bounded on the north by 34 Avenue, on the south by 28 Avenue, on the west by 66 Street, and on the east by 50 Street.


Demographics

In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Tawa had a population of living in dwellings, a 0.6% change from its 2009 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012.


Residential development

One out of three (34%) of residences in Tawa are
apartment An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...
s, with the total number of apartments being split equally between walk up structures with fewer than five stories and high rise structures with five or more stories. Another one in three residences (34%) are
duplexes A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or above each other like apartments. By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is ...
. One in five residences (22%) are
row house In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house (British English, UK) or townhouse (American English, US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings party ...
s. A significant number of residences (12%) are part of collective residences. There is a handful of single-family dwellings. Approximately three out of every four residences are owner-occupied, with the remainder being
rented Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for a ...
. The average household in Tawa has 2.3 people, with two out of three households having either one or two persons.http://censusdocs.edmonton.ca/DD20/FEDERAL%202001/Neighbourhood/TAWA.pdf


Household income

Incomes in the neighbourhood are slightly below the city average.


Surrounding neighbourhoods


References


External links


Tawa Neighbourhood Profile
{{Edmonton neighbourhoods Neighbourhoods in Edmonton