51.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.5%
- 2016: 48.7%
- 2021: 51.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
South Toowoomba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in South Toowoomba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into South Toowoomba recently than in most other similar areas. It is a highly mobile community where over half of the residents have changed addresses in the last five years. This movement is driven largely by a massive influx of people from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51.8% of people here moved home in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area has seen a huge number of new arrivals from overseas, making up 39.3% of the population. This is far above the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
39.3% ▲ +45.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 39.3%
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 South Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32601/south-toowoomba/topic/mobility-location