Perth suburbs / Tapping
Tapping 6065
A free data profile of Tapping, Perth — home to about 9,564 people across 3,538 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Tapping
Tapping is a large Perth suburb, home to about 9,564 people across 3,538 properties. Residents have a median age of 36, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,422/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Tapping records about 17 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), well below the Perth median of 69 — notably safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 2 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Banksia Grove Primary School, Spring Hill Primary School, Tapping Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 26% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Tapping was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 0% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies.
Generated from WA Police, WA Health, ABS Census 2021, Digital Earth Australia (green cover), ACCC (mobile) and infrastructure.gov.au open data, compared to Perth-metro medians. Housing, tenure & commute: Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Green cover © DEA/Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0). Informational only.
Explore the neighbourhood — Tapping
Demographic, employment and income insights of 9,547 residents living in Tapping, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 35Household type
Majority are families (86%)Occupancy
81% own their home, 17% rentHow it has changed
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2011, 2016 & 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Suburb-level figures; boundaries differ a little between census years, so trends are indicative.
Who lives here
Housing & tenure
How people commute
Schools & education
2 schools in Tapping · nearest nearby:
- Spring Hill Primary Schoolin suburb
- Tapping Primary Schoolin suburb
- Carramar Primary School276 m
- Banksia Grove Primary School895 m
- Joseph Banks Secondary College1.2 km
- St John Paul Ii Catholic Primary School1.5 km
- Grandis Primary School1.7 km
- Joondalup Primary School2.0 km
Primary: Banksia Grove Primary School, Spring Hill Primary School, Tapping Primary School, Wanneroo Primary School
Secondary: Joseph Banks Secondary College
The exact catchment depends on the address — open a specific property on the map to confirm.
Safety & crime
Environment
Getting around
Internet (NBN, 2020)
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