Tauwhare is a small rural community in the Waikato District on the outskirts of Hamilton. The Waitakaruru Arboretum and Sculpture Park is located here.

There is a Community Committee and a Memorial Hall. The 1902 Cyclopedia of New Zealand noted that Tauwhare had a scattered population, a school, a cheese factory (owned by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company) and could be reached by coach from Tamahere railway station.

Demographics

The 2006 census counted a Tamahere and Tauwhare area of 130 km (50 sq mi). In 2018 Tauwhare was grouped in the Eureka Tauwhare area, which covers 135.55 km (52.34 sq mi). These areas had the statistics in the table below, which show people are wealthier and slightly older than the 37.4 years of the national average. In 2013 Tauwhere was covered by meshblocks 0957700 and 0958200 with a population totalling 486 in 156 households.

	Population
Year	T/Eureka	T/Tamahere	Median age	Households	Median income	National median income
2001		3,579	37.3	1,167	$24,400	$18,500
2006	1,539	4,623	38.7	1,470	$32,400	$24,100
2013	1,917	5,628	42.5	1,875	$38,500	$27,900
2018	2,142		37.5	696	$44,500	$31,800

In 2018 the main ethnic groups of the area were 89.4% European, 9.5% Māori and 5.3% Asian.

Marae

Te Iti o Hauā Marae is the mana whenua in Tauwhare of the local sub-tribe of the same name of Ngāti Hauā. The people here belong to the Mangaonua river. Waimakariri Marae and Waenganui meeting house is a meeting place for the Ngāti Hauā hapū of Ngāti Waenganui and Ngāti Waenganui, and the Waikato Tainui hapū of Ngāti Hauā.

In October 2020, the Government committed $734,311 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade the marae and 4 other Ngāti Hauā marae, creating 7 jobs.

Education

Tauwhare School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, with a roll of 108 as of February 2024.