Tayene TAS 7259
46 addresses · 8 streets
Bass Electorate › Launceston LGA › Tayene · 172 km from Hobart
Living Here
Tayene is a suburb of Tasmania, home to about 25 people, with a median age of 55. The typical household earns around $1,542 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Irish, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Dilston - Lilydale statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Tayene itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 82.5% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 82.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 92.1% |
Demographics
Unemployment 6.7% · Labour-force participation 57.7%
Population by age in Tayene
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 6 |
| 55-64 | 12 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Tayene
| House | 12 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Tayene
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 3 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 6 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Tayene
| English | 13 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 4 |
| Australian | 3 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Ancestry NS | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Tayene
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 3 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Tayene
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 4 |
Commute to work in Tayene
| Car | 12 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 6 |
Languages used at home in Tayene
| Mandarin | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
129 bird observations recorded near Tayene — most often seen:
- Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle (18)
- Forest Raven (9)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (9)
- Superb Fairy-wren (8)
- Green Rosella (7)
- Tasmanian Scrubwren (7)
- Yellow-throated Honeyeater (6)
- Black Currawong (5)
- Laughing Kookaburra (5)
- Tasmanian Thornbill (5)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (4)
- Striated Pardalote (4)
- Black-browed Albatross (3)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Tayene
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (3)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (3)
- Flame Robin (3)
- Grey Fantail (3)
- Silvereye (3)
- Australian Magpie (2)
- Australian Wood Duck (2)
- Beautiful Firetail (2)
- Brown Falcon (2)
- Coastal Spotted Pardalote (2)
- Dusky Robin (2)
- Eastern Dusky Woodswallow (2)
- European Goldfinch (2)
- Grey Butcherbird (2)
- Masked Owl (2)
- Pallid Cuckoo (2)
- Scrubtit (2)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Tayene:
- Targa (7.2 km)
- Myrtle Bank (9.9 km)
- South Springfield (10.6 km)
- Patersonia (11.8 km)
- Nunamara (12.5 km)
- Burns Creek (13.1 km)
- Springfield (13.2 km)
- Upper Blessington (16.7 km)
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Streets
- Calverts Road (2)
- Camden Hill Road (1)
- Camden Road (22)
- Diddleum Road (7)
- East Diddleum Road (4)
- Phillips Road (1)
- Rankins Road (5)
- Sowters Road (4)
