50.8% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.1%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Toowoomba City · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Toowoomba City
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Toowoomba City have moved here in the last five years, a rate far higher than the national average. This high churn is driven by a massive influx of people from overseas, making the area much more mobile than most parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.8% of people moved house in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the own national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 40.9% of the population. This is far above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
40.9% ▲ +51.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 40.9%
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 Toowoomba City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32855/toowoomba-city/topic/mobility-location