Tweed Heads

11.0% of Tweed Heads's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

2,373 family households lived in Tweed Heads; 26.0% were couple families and 17.7% were one-parent families.

24.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Tweed Heads had 9,176 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

50.4% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 24.9% of occupied private dwellings in Tweed Heads.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 30.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 44.2% of occupied private dwellings.

43.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

21.5% were buying their home with a mortgage.

35.5% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Tweed Heads had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 38.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 40.0%, while 10.7% had four or more usual residents.

13.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

57.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

0.8% used only a train, tram or bus, while 7.9% walked or cycled.

11.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

One-car households formed 49.5% of the total.

39.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

50.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 49.4% reported a different address.

20.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

83.8% of residents used only English at home.

8.0% used a language other than English at home.

0.4% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

20.5% of Tweed Heads's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 79.5% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.0% of ancestry responses in Tweed Heads.

Australian ancestry made up 32.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.3% of responses.

19.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 9.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 18.7% of workers, and education and training employed 8.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 46.3%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

21.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.7%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

51.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.9% reported asthma, 13.1% arthritis and 4.2% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.1%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 34.2%.

Median household income was $1,138 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $403 per week.

Working from home was 13.4% in Tweed Heads, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 43.1% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 35.5% in Tweed Heads, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.