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Housing
tarro
New South Wales · Census 2021
$708k
+8.8% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Tarro is a leafy residential suburb of Newcastle.
Median house price
People
Population
1,703
Median age
45 yrs
Income / person / wk
$623
Household income / wk
$1,167
Housing
Median rent / wk
$340
Mortgage / month
$1,517
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 39%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 1%
- No religion
- 39%
- Born overseas
- 8%
- English only at home
- 96%
Local amenities
Amenity score
11/100
Schools
2
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
3
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.9 km
Nearest train
0.7 km
Nearest hospital
8.5 km
Distance to coast
2.1 km
NBN
Fixed Wireless
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
Government
1
Catholic
1
Independent
1
Primary
3
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
1.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Newcastle
- Council population
- 172,308
- Council area
- 187 km²
- Density
- 923/km²
- Federal grants
- $15.71M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $91/yr
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. All CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Paterson
- Federal MP
- Meryl Swanson (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 57% 2PP
- State electorate
- Wallsend
- State MP
- Sonia Hornery (ALP)
Similar suburbs
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