20.5% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tweed Heads · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tweed Heads
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A much smaller proportion of people were born overseas in Tweed Heads compared to the state and national figures. While about 20.5% of residents were born outside Australia, this is well below the New South Wales average of 29.3%.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 43.0%, followed by Australian at 32.3% and Irish at 14.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
People born overseas make up 20.5% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas, though still well below the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (70.9%), with England (5.0%) and New Zealand (3.7%) as the next most common birthplaces.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14002/tweed-heads/topic/ancestry-heritage