English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 91.7% of persons usually resident in Tacoma South. The most common languages other than English spoken at home were: Spanish 0.3%, Italian 0.3%, Cantonese 0.3%, Greek 0.2% and German 0.2%.

There were 13,977 families in Tacoma South: 44.7% were couple families with children, 37.4% were couple families without children, 17.2% were one parent families and 0.7% were other families.

The most common responses for occupation for employed persons usually resident in Tacoma South were Technicians and Trades Workers 17.0%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 15.2%, Professionals 13.1%, Labourers 12.2% and Sales Workers 11.4%.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 2259 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics