Is Tweed Heads South a nice place to live?

Tweed Heads South is a coastal-fringe suburb with riverside reserves and walking paths, small shopping strips and low-rise, tree-lined streets. The community is older, with incomes below the NSW median and many households owning their homes outright, and couples without children make up 46.0% of families. Local life centres on community facilities, sports fields and riverside picnic spots, with local buses and road links to the wider Tweed Heads area and the Gold Coast, and the public school upgrade at Tweed Heads South Public School was completed.

Is it expensive to live in Tweed Heads South?

Tweed Heads South's typical local household earned about $976 a week at the last Census, according to the ABS. With house rent around $850 a week, that would take about 87% of a typical local household's weekly income, and a unit at $720 a week would take about 74%. On these figures, renting here takes a large share of a typical local household's income. Buying sits even further from local incomes: the median house price of $1,020,000 is about 20.1 times a typical local annual household income, and the median unit price of $850,000 is about 16.8 times. On these figures, purchase prices sit well above what a typical local household earned at the last Census. Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.

Is Tweed Heads South a good place to invest?

Tweed Heads South's recent twelve-month figures show house values rose a strong 24.5% and unit values rose 11.8%, while house rents increased a solid 7.6% and unit rents jumped a strong 16.1%. For houses, capital growth outpaced rental growth, whereas for units rental income grew faster than values. This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

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Tweed Heads South suburb profile

Tweed Heads South is an outer suburb in the Tweed Heads area on the NSW north coast, close to the Tweed River and the Queensland border. It has a relaxed coastal-fringe character, with tree-lined streets, low-rise housing, a mix of older weatherboard homes and newer brick dwellings and established suburban gardens.

Local life revolves around small shopping strips, community facilities, sports fields and riverside reserves with walking paths and picnic spots. The suburb is connected to the wider Tweed Heads area by local buses and road links, with easy access to regional services and the Gold Coast's amenities.

Tweed Heads South property market performance

Current median dwelling price$935,000Past 3 months

Property growth+18.1%Past 12 months

Tweed Heads South's median house price is $1.02 million, up 24.5% over 12 months, a strong rise. The median unit price is $850,000, up 11.8% over 12 months, a steep rise. Units sold more quickly than houses, with a shorter median time on market. The unit value rise is calculated from 15 sales, so its size comes from a relatively small sample.

In Tweed Heads South, unit rents rose 16.1% over 12 months, outpacing unit values.

	Houses	Units
Median price Past 3 months	$1.02M	$850K
Change in value Past 12 months	24.5%	11.8%
Sold Past 3 months	29	15
Median days on market Past 12 months	35	21
Average rent Past 12 months	$850	$720
Change in rent Past 12 months	7.6%	16.1%

5 year median price trend for houses and units

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Tweed Heads South demographics

Tweed Heads South is an older community with incomes below the median for NSW and many households owning their homes outright.

Couples without children are the largest family group at 46.0% of families. At the 2021 Census there were 7,941 people in Tweed Heads South.

Tweed Heads South and NSW

	Suburb	NSW
Median age years	52	39
Median household income weekly	$976	$1,829
Couples with children share of families	28.2%	44.7%
Couples without children share of families	46.0%	37.9%
One-parent families share of families	23.4%	15.8%
Homes owned outright share of homes	44.3%	32.6%
Homes with a mortgage share of homes	23.4%	33.6%
Homes rented share of homes	32.3%	33.7%

Source: ABS 2021 Census. Shares of homes exclude other and not-stated tenure.

Tweed Heads South infrastructure, key developments and investment opportunities

Tweed Heads South is the subject of the Homes NSW proposal "More and better homes for Tweed Heads South", at the planning stage in 2026; the proposal is for a five-storey apartment delivering 32 new social housing homes. The suburb’s public school upgrade at Tweed Heads South Public School was completed in 2024 and provides 11 new permanent learning spaces.

Tweed River High School received a major upgrade completed in 2024 that includes specialist vocational education facilities. Tweed Shire Council’s Tweed Heads South levee and drainage study was on public exhibition in 2025 and examines levee and drainage mitigation options for the area.

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How does Tweed Heads South compare to nearby suburbs?

Median house prices: Tweed Heads South’s median house price is 4.9% higher than Tralee’s.
Median unit prices: Tweed Heads South’s median unit price is 16.0% higher than Tweed Heads West’s.
House price growth: Over the past 12 months, house prices in Tweed Heads South have grown 11.3% higher than in Banora Point.
Unit price growth: Over the past 12 months, unit prices in Tweed Heads South have grown 2.7% higher than in Banora Point.
Selling speed for houses: Properties in Tweed Heads South are selling 68.5% faster than in Tralee.
Selling speed for units: Properties in Tweed Heads South are selling 30.0% faster than in Banora Point.

Common questions about Tweed Heads South

Is Tweed Heads South a nice place to live?
Tweed Heads South is a coastal-fringe suburb with riverside reserves and walking paths, small shopping strips and low-rise, tree-lined streets.

The community is older, with incomes below the NSW median and many households owning their homes outright, and couples without children make up 46.0% of families. Local life centres on community facilities, sports fields and riverside picnic spots, with local buses and road links to the wider Tweed Heads area and the Gold Coast, and the public school upgrade at Tweed Heads South Public School was completed.
Is it expensive to live in Tweed Heads South?
Tweed Heads South's typical local household earned about $976 a week at the last Census, according to the ABS. With house rent around $850 a week, that would take about 87% of a typical local household's weekly income, and a unit at $720 a week would take about 74%. On these figures, renting here takes a large share of a typical local household's income.

Buying sits even further from local incomes: the median house price of $1,020,000 is about 20.1 times a typical local annual household income, and the median unit price of $850,000 is about 16.8 times. On these figures, purchase prices sit well above what a typical local household earned at the last Census.

Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.
Is Tweed Heads South a good place to invest?
Tweed Heads South's recent twelve-month figures show house values rose a strong 24.5% and unit values rose 11.8%, while house rents increased a solid 7.6% and unit rents jumped a strong 16.1%. For houses, capital growth outpaced rental growth, whereas for units rental income grew faster than values.

This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

Choose the right real estate agents in Tweed Heads South

There are 64 real estate agents in Tweed Heads South, but they don’t all deliver the same results.

Some agents have a much stronger presence in the suburb, with just 5 agents handling around 29.8% of all sales in the past year.

Commission rates in Tweed Heads South typically range from 1.88% to 3.25%. Comparing agents—including what they charge, what’s included, and how they structure their fees—is not only important when choosing an agent, the right structure can help ensure your chosen agent is motivated to achieve the best possible result.