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What it costs to live in Tweed, NSW
Tweed council area, New South Wales. About 101,044 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, fuel, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of New South Wales.
Rent
$850
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$1,191
Lost for every resident in a year. That's about the NSW average.
See pokies losses in TweedElectricity
$2,604
A year on the default offer in the Essential Energy network area, for 4,600 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $2,396.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
193c
A litre, on average, at 26 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's about the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,031 of these in Tweed. That's 1,033 for every 100,000 people, or 87% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 926, so it has gone up 12%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,031 | 1,033 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 933 | 935 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 963 | 965 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 980 | 990 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 937 | 956 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 900 | 926 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 791 | 818 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 825 | 851 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 716 | 746 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 766 | 807 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,933 of these in Tweed. That's 1,937 for every 100,000 people, or 1.2 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,355, so it has gone up 43%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,933 | 1,937 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 1,844 | 1,848 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 1,933 | 1,937 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 1,591 | 1,608 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 1,247 | 1,273 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 1,317 | 1,355 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 1,528 | 1,581 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 1,788 | 1,844 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 1,673 | 1,742 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 1,541 | 1,624 | 2,184 |
This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state.
Suburbs in Tweed
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Back Creek (Tweed - NSW)
- Banora Point
- Bilambil
- Bilambil Heights
- Bogangar
- Bray Park
- Brays Creek
- Bungalora
- Burringbar
- Byangum
- Byrrill Creek
- Cabarita Beach
- Carool
- Casuarina
- Cedar Creek (Tweed - NSW)
- Chillingham
- Chinderah
- Chowan Creek
- Clothiers Creek
- Cobaki
- Cobaki Lakes
- Commissioners Creek
- Condong
- Crabbes Creek
- Crystal Creek
- Cudgen
- Cudgera Creek
- Doon Doon
- Dulguigan
- Dum Dum
- Dunbible
- Dungay
- Duranbah
- Duroby
- Eungella
- Eviron
- Farrants Hill
- Fernvale
- Fingal Head
- Glengarrie
- Hastings Point
- Hopkins Creek
- Kielvale
- Kings Forest
- Kingscliff
- Kunghur
- Kunghur Creek
- Kynnumboon
- Limpinwood
- Mebbin
- Midginbil
- Mooball
- Mount Burrell
- Mount Warning
- Murwillumbah
- Nobbys Creek
- North Arm
- North Tumbulgum
- Numinbah
- Nunderi
- Palmvale
- Piggabeen
- Pottsville
- Pumpenbil
- Reserve Creek
- Round Mountain
- Rowlands Creek
- Sleepy Hollow
- Smiths Creek (Tweed - NSW)
- South Murwillumbah
- Stokers Siding
- Stotts Creek
- Tanglewood
- Terragon
- Terranora
- Tomewin
- Tumbulgum
- Tweed Heads
- Tweed Heads South
- Tweed Heads West
- Tyalgum
- Tyalgum Creek
- Tygalgah
- Uki
- Upper Burringbar
- Upper Crystal Creek
- Upper Duroby
- Urliup
- Wardrop Valley
- Wooyung (part)
- Zara
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Tweed with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
Sources: recorded crime, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Rent: state rental bond data (see the rent pages). Electricity: Default Market Offer 2026–27: © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator), CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right. Fuel: NSW Government FuelCheck, CC BY-SA, so the fuel figure can be reused under the same licence.