52.4% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.8%
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 52.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Toowoomba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in East Toowoomba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into East Toowoomba recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population changed homes in the last five years, with a particularly strong influx of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A high number of residents are new to the area, with 52.4% moving house in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common here, as 27.4% of people moved from another country recently. This is far above the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
27.4% ▲ +38.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in East Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30933/east-toowoomba/topic/mobility-location