46.0% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Toowoomba · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Toowoomba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much higher share of people have moved into Toowoomba recently than in most other similar areas. About 46% of residents arrived in the last five years, while over a quarter of the population are recent overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 46% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. While this is a little above the Queensland average, the rate has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.2% of the population, a figure that is far above both the state and national averages. This level of migration has remained steady since 2011.
25.2% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 25.2%
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 [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3016/toowoomba/topic/mobility-location