Tāmaki is a small suburb of

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, 11 kilometres from the

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, in the

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of New Zealand. It is located by the banks of the

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Tāmaki River The Tāmaki River or Tāmaki Estuary is mostly an estuarial arm and harbour of the Hauraki Gulf, within the city of Auckland in New Zealand.

, which is a southern arm of the

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. 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.

Demographics

Tāmaki covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km². Tāmaki had a population of 4,167 in the

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, 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. 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. People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 30.8% European (

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); 22.5%

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; 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).

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was known by 0.4%. The percentage of people born overseas was 39.2, compared with 28.8% nationally. Religious affiliations were 46.1%

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, 2.3%

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, 3.0%

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, 3.1%

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, 2.0%

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, 0.4%

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, 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. 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.

Education

Tāmaki Primary School is a contributing primary school (years 1–8) with a roll of . Sommerville School is a school for students with special educational needs with a roll of . These schools are adjacent to each other. Both schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of

Volcano

To the west of the suburb is Mount Wellington, a 137-metre

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peak which is part of the

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, 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 East Tāmaki is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is a largely industrial area adjacent to a rapidly growing population. Prior to the 1960s it was largely a dairy farming area. A landmark is Smales Mountain which in 2010 has the remains of ...

is located several kilometres to the south of Tāmaki because it takes its name from the fact that it is on the eastern side of the Tamaki River, rather than from its relationship to Tāmaki. 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 – an ironic possibility given that the Māori name of the heavily populated Auckland isthmus in

is ''Tāmaki-makau-rau''. A third possible origin of the names is ''Tā-Maki'', meaning ''successful attack by Maki'', which was the name of a local tribal chief.

References

{{Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board Area Suburbs of Auckland Populated places on the Tāmaki River