Tweed Heads

Tweed Heads is a coastal city at the mouth of the Tweed River in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, and is the northernmost town in the state. It lies in the Tweed Shire local government area, about 830 kilometres north of Sydney and 103 kilometres south of Brisbane, directly on the Queensland border beside its twin town of Coolangatta, a suburb of the Gold Coast. European settlement began with cedar cutters in the Tweed Valley in 1844, followed by dairy farming, sugar cane, bananas and fishing, and the place name Tweed Heads replaced earlier names such as Crown Village and Cooloon, with the change made formal in 1965. The urban area runs south along the coast to Hastings Point and west along Terranora Creek, and the 2021 census counted 63,721 people in the urban centre, many of them retirees. Its economy is shared with Coolangatta and rests heavily on tourism, with Mount Warning and several national parks nearby.