Tallai is a small outer suburb of City of Gold Coast in South East Queensland, Australia. It is situated in the Gold Coast hinterland.
In the 2011 census the population of Tallai was 3,765, 51.8% female and 48.2% male. The median age of the Tallai population was 43 years, 6 years above the national median of 37. 65.8% of people living in Tallai were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 8.3%, New Zealand 7.2%, South Africa 2.1%, Scotland 1.1%, Germany 0.7%. 86.9% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1% German, 0.8% Italian, 0.6% French, 0.6% Japanese, 0.5% Spanish.