Rental reviews in Tweed Heads West, NSW 2485

Tweed Heads West is a NSW suburb in Tweed LGA, matched to postcode 2485 — also covering Tweed Heads. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $700 in 2025, up 7.7% from $650 in 2024. That is close to the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Tweed Heads West recorded 372 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026, up 4.2% from 357 a year earlier. These are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and they are not adjusted for how many people live or visit here. House bonds typically leased at $808 a week and flats/units at $650. Townhouse bonds sat at $750 a week. Two-bedroom bonds had a median of $660; three-bedroom bonds $820. One-bedroom bonds sat at $450 a week. Four-bedroom bonds sat at $995 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $600 and $820 a week. Fair Trading recorded 552 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $506 to $700 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 128 and violent-related offences 118. Theft made up the largest published share (87 incidents, 23%). Next was Assault (68). The crime series is coded to this suburb name; the rent series, where shown, is the whole postcode. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.