Tamborine

Tamborine is a suburb split between Logan City and the Scenic Rim Region. It's home to 3,950 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Tamborine's name is derived from the Bundjalung language, the local Indigenous language. It's either specifically derived from jambireen which reportedly means 'wild lime tree' or gom birin which means 'yam in a cliff'.

Establishment as a locality
Tamborine was established as a locality on April 24, 1997 by the Queensland Minister for Natural Resources. It was regazetted in 2009 due to the council amalgamations happening at the time making it a locality of both Logan City and the Scenic Rim Region.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Tamborine recorded a population of 3,950 people, 50.3% female and 49.7% male. The median age of the Tamborine population was 41 years, 3 years above the national median. 71.9% of people living in Tamborine were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (6.6%), New Zealand (5.0%), Scotland (0.6%), Germany (0.5%) and Netherlands (0.4%).

Tamborine is a predominantly family suburb with 83.9% of households being family households. Of these family households, 58.4% have children. The other households are single-person households (13.2%) and group households (2.9%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Tamborine had an unemployment rate of 5.4%, 1.5% lower than the national rate. The top industries were primary education (2.6%), road freight transport (2.4%), supermarket and grocery stores (2.2%), hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (2.2%) and Local Government administration (1.9%).

The weekly median household income was $1,841 (annually $95,732) and the weekly median personal income was $699 (annually $36,348).

Students
There was a total of 849 students living in Tamborine in 2016, making up 21.4% of all residents. Out of those attending an educational institution, the top responses were primary school (41.2%), secondary school (35.6%) and university (9.6%).

59.5% of Tamborine's residents (aged 15 years or over) had finished year 12 or achieved a higher level of education by the 2016 census. However, it should also be noted that 13.2% of the counted population didn't state their education level.

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,080 and median weekly rent was $395.

At the time, Tamborine was home to 1,384 private dwellings. 96.2% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 99.2% were separate houses and 0.3% were semi-detached houses (such as townhouses); there were no apartments. The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.6 and the average number of people in a Tamborine household was 3.