Tapping is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the

City of Wanneroo The City of Wanneroo is a local government area with city status in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It is centred approximately north of Perth's central business district and forms part of the northern boundary of the Perth ...

. It came into being in the early 1990s as a subdivision of

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, originally as part of the Carramar estate. Tapping was chosen as the suburb name in honour of an early settler family in the Wanneroo area. William Tapping arrived in 1886, and Molly and Dolly Tapping were long time

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es in Wanneroo. The name for the suburb was approved in 1997.

Geography

Tapping is bounded by

Joondalup Drive Joondalup Drive is a major distributor road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The road travels through the City of Joondalup's central business district and extends for a few kilometres east through neighbouring residential ...

to the north,

Pinjar Road Pinjar Road is a major distributor road in the north-eastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. The road was formerly part of the now-decommissioned State Route 86, and one of Perth's major arterial ...

to the east, Conti Road to the south, and

Wanneroo Road Wanneroo Road is a arterial highway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia linking Joondanna and Yokine in the south with Wanneroo and Yanchep in the north. As part of State Route 60, it begins from Charles Street in the inner ...

to the west.Maps 165-166, 2007 UBD Directory (49th Edition), Universal Publishers Limited, Perth.

Demographics

In the , Tapping had a population of 8,946, an increase in comparison to the 2001 census, which had the population at 229. This increase can be directly attributed to continued housing development within the suburb on previously undeveloped land previously used for farming and horticulture activities. The median age of Tapping residents was 30, and median individual incomes were $831 per week. 0.8% of the population identified themselves as Indigenous persons. The most common religious affiliation was "No Religion" (25.3%); the next most common responses were Anglican (23.7%), Catholic (22.0%), and Uniting Church (3.6%).

Education

Tapping contains one private school, St Stephen's School, Carramar Campus, an extension of the original St Stephens School in Duncraig. The school supports both primary and secondary education. Tapping also has two public schools: Tapping Primary School, which opened at the start of 2007, and Spring Hill Primary School, which opened in 2011. Both schools provide education from kindergarten through to Year 6. Tapping does not contain a public high school. High school studies are provided through

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and

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Transport

The suburb is served by bus routes that provide connections to the

Yanchep line The Yanchep line, formerly the Joondalup line, is a suburban railway line and service in Perth, Western Australia, linking the city's central business district (CBD) with its northern suburbs. Operated by the Public Transport Authority as pa ...

via either Whitfords or

Joondalup Joondalup () is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth central business district, Perth's central business district. It contains the central business district of the regional City of Joondalup and acts as the primar ...

railway stations.

Bus

* 390 Joondalup Station to Banksia Grove – serves

, Clarkson Avenue, Yandella Promenade and

* 467 Joondalup Station to Whitfords Station – serves

, Waldburg Drive and Carosa Road * 468 Joondalup Station to Whitfords Station – serves

2023 fire

The suburb was seriously affected by the

2023 Wanneroo bushfire The 2023 Wanneroo bushfire began on 22 November 2023 in Mariginiup in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia. The fire forced evacuations of residents and eighteen houses were destroyed. The fire destroyed over of land, including farmland a ...

References

{{City of Wanneroo suburbs Suburbs of the City of Wanneroo