Tapapa () is a rural community in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.
Tapapa has two marae within the area:
Tapapa locality covers It is part of the larger Tërau statistical area.
Tapapa had a population of 615 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 54 people (9.6%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 90 people (17.1%) since the 2013 census. There were 309 males and 297 females in 213 dwellings. 2.9% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 144 people (23.4%) aged under 15 years, 90 (14.6%) aged 15 to 29, 291 (47.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 84 (13.7%) aged 65 or older.
People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 85.9% European (PÃÂkehÃÂ), 24.9% MÃÂori, 2.4% Pasifika, 1.0% Asian, and 2.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 95.6%, MÃÂori by 3.9%, Samoan by 1.0%, and other languages by 3.4%. No language could be spoken by 3.4% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 1.5%. The percentage of people born overseas was 12.2, compared with 28.8% nationally.
Religious affiliations were 25.9% Christian, 0.5% Islam, 1.0% MÃÂori religious beliefs, 0.5% Buddhist, 1.0% New Age, and 1.0% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 60.5%, and 9.3% of people did not answer the census question.
Of those at least 15 years old, 66 (14.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 291 (61.8%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 102 (21.7%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. 69 people (14.6%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was 270 (57.3%) full-time, 78 (16.6%) part-time, and 21 (4.5%) unemployed.
Tapapa School was open by 1898 and voluntarily merged with Okoroire School in 2003 on the latter school's site to form Kuranui Primary School.