Type: | suburb |
Tweed Heads West | |
City: | Tweed Heads |
State: | nsw |
Local Map: | yes |
Zoom: | 11 |
Pop: | 6,176 |
Postcode: | 2485 |
Elevation: | 8 |
Timezone: | AEST |
Utc: | +10 |
Timezone-Dst: | AEDT |
Utc-Dst: | +11 |
Dist1: | 819 |
Dir1: | NNE |
Location1: | Sydney City |
Dist2: | 104 |
Dir2: | SSE |
Location2: | Brisbane City |
Dist3: | 31 |
Dir3: | SSE |
Location3: | Surfers Paradise |
Dist4: | 65 |
Dir4: | N |
Location4: | Byron Bay |
Lga: | Tweed Shire |
Stategov: | Tweed |
Fedgov: | Richmond |
Near-N: | Bilinga (QLD) |
Near-Ne: | Tweed Heads |
Near-E: | Tweed Heads |
Near-Se: | Tweed Heads South |
Near-S: | Tweed Heads South |
Near-Sw: | Bilambil Heights |
Near-W: | Cobaki Lakes |
Near-Nw: | Cobaki Lakes |
Tweed Heads West is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire along the Queensland and New South Wales border.
Tweed Heads West is situated in the Bundjalung traditional Aboriginal country.[1] [2]
Boyd Family Park is situated on Piggabeen Road, adjacent to Cobaki Creek, with barbecue facility, drinking fountain, picnic setting and shelter.[3]
In the, Tweed Heads West recorded a population of 6,196 people, 53% female and 47% male.
The median age of the Tweed Heads West population was 48 years, 11 years above the national median of 37.
74.4% of people living in Tweed Heads West were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 7.6%, New Zealand 3.5%, Scotland 1%, Germany 0.7%, Philippines 0.5%.
91% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.4% Tagalog, 0.4% German, 0.3% French, 0.3% Thai, 0.2% Spanish.