Tarcoola Beach WA 6530

Living Here

Tarcoola Beach is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 1,360 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $2,157 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 74% of households own their home and 25% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Geraldton - South statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Tarcoola Beach itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 12 schools

  • Mount Tarcoola Primary School
  • Wandina Primary School
  • Champion Bay Senior High School
  • Saint John's School
  • Beachlands Primary School
  • Geraldton Senior College
  • Rangeway Primary School
  • Holland Street School
  • Saint Francis Xavier Primary School
  • Geraldton Primary School

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• 2 supermarkets

  • Gearings Local Supermarket
  • Woolworths
• 27 parks

  • Glendinning Park
  • Ackland Park
  • Iduna Park
  • Paringa Park
  • Chris Mainwaring Park
  • Sutherland Public Open Space
  • Willcock Drive Lookout
  • Seacrest Park
  • Hebert Park
  • Wanderer Public Open Space

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• 1 beach

  • Back Beach
• 1 Catholic church

  • St Francis Xavier Cathedral Geraldton
• 5 doctors & medical clinics

  • Panaceum Seacrest
  • Bell Hearing
  • Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service (GRAMS)
  • Medical Aesthetics
  • Midwest Orthopaedics
• 2 dentists

  • Smileworx Othrodontics Geraldton
  • Cathedral Dental
• 2 optometrists

  • Specsavers
  • midwest optical
• 2 hospitals

  • St John of God Geraldton Hospital
  • Geraldton Health Campus
• 1 vet

  • Midwest Vet Centre
• 1 library

  • Geraldton Library
• 7 service stations

  • Puma Tarcoola
  • Metro Petroleum Geraldton
  • Shell Coles Express Wonthella
  • Astron Rangeway
  • Foodary
  • BP
  • EG Geraldton
• 2 golf clubs

  • Geraldton Golf Club
  • Spalding Park Golf Club
• 2 hardware stores

  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Sydney Tools
• 3 mechanics

  • Desert Sands Mechanical
  • All Torque Diesel
  • Komatsu Geraldton
• 1 electrician

  • Shmick Auto Electrics
• 15 places to stay

  • Zebras
  • The African Reef
  • ibis Styles Geraldton
  • Abrolhos Reef Lodge
  • Geraldton Motor Inn
  • Ocean View Villas
  • Ocean West Geraldton
  • Best Western Hospitality Inn
  • The Gerald Apartment Hotel
  • Geraldton Backpackers

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Getting around. Bus interchange: Transwa Geraldton, 4.5 km north · Airport: Geraldton Airport, 7.6 km east.

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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: 2.5% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 3.5% · Labour-force participation 68.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

3,313 bird observations recorded near Tarcoola Beach — most often seen:

• Rock Dove (276)
• Laughing Turtle-dove (236)
• Silver Gull (186)
• Magpie-lark (172)
• Southern Magpie-lark (146)
• Willie Wagtail (138)
• Western Australian Raven (132)
• Pacific Gull (129)
• Giinbaywarraymal (128)
• Southern Willie Wagtail (128)
• Ruddy Turnstone (127)
• Crested Tern (122)
• Western White-plumed Honeyeater (120)

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 Tarcoola Beach:

• Mount Tarcoola (1.1 km)
• Wandina (1.4 km)
• Mahomets Flats (2.1 km)
• Karloo (2.7 km)
• Rangeway (2.8 km)
• Beachlands (3.3 km)
• Utakarra (3.6 km)
• Geraldton (3.8 km)

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