47.8% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.1%
- 2016: 49.6%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Toowoomba · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Toowoomba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved to Toowoomba recently than in most similar areas. Nearly half of all residents arrived within the last five years, and the city has seen a huge surge in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate is among the highest for similar areas, though it fell slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Arrivals from overseas have risen sharply to 28.4% since 2011. This is far above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national figure of 14.5%.
28.4% ▲ +51.2%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 28.4%
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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303002/toowoomba/topic/mobility-location