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Living in Place in Toowoomba in 2023

This section presents the Overall Liveability Index and shows what the community believes makes somewhere a good place to live and how they experience their local area in that regard. It highlights the liveability attributes where residents local area experiences need to be maintained or improved to advance quality of life in their local area and gives you the ability to explore how the views compare to benchmarks, change across local areas and the influence of demography.

Toowoomba Overall Liveability Index
Toowoomba 2022
61.9
Australia: 2023
62.6
Queensland: 2023
60.9
Regional Australia: 2023
61.2
South East Queensland: 2023
62.2
Collected July 2023

Toowoomba’s overall liveability – created by combining residents’ values and local area experiences – returned a Overall Liveability Index of 55.6 out of 100. By this measure, liveability in Toowoomba is considered lower than Australia: 2023 (62.6), Queensland: 2023 (60.9), Regional Australia: 2023 (61.2), and South East Queensland: 2023 (62.2).

Living in Toowoomba - values & experiences matrix

Use the values and experiences matrix to understand the relationship between what your residents believe makes somewhere a good place to live and how they experience their local area in that regard. The matrix highlights the attributes that your community believe needs to maintained and improved to advance overall liveability.

Greater Importance & Worse Experiences    Greater Importance & Better Experiences    Less important attributes
- - - Change from previous wave

Living in Toowoomba – interactive explorer

Use the interactive explorer to understand how your community’s values and experiences compare to other similar locations and regional benchmarks. The explorer also allows you to understand values and experiences across small areas within your LGA and the role of demography. View this short video to learn more about this tool.

Toowoomba Overall Liveability Index

Toowoomba Overall Liveability Index 55.6

June 2022 Overall Liveability Index

June 2022 Overall Liveability Index 61.9

Toowoomba
June 2022
Results sorted by importance in Toowoomba
Importance
Experience
74%
4.6
62%
6.2
Importance
Experience
55%
4.8
52%
5.4
Importance
Experience
51%
6.1
49%
6.6
Importance
Experience
39%
6.8
48%
7.0
Importance
Experience
35%
6.0
39%
6.5
Importance
Experience
31%
6.1
30%
6.1
Importance
Experience
31%
6.0
30%
6.4
Importance
Experience
30%
5.4
30%
5.8
Importance
Experience
28%
5.7
28%
6.4
Importance
Experience
26%
3.6
19%
3.4
Importance
Experience
21%
6.8
27%
7.1
Importance
Experience
21%
6.0
27%
6.3
Importance
Experience
18%
5.9
18%
6.2
Importance
Experience
16%
5.5
13%
6.2
Importance
Experience
15%
5.6
18%
5.5
Importance
Experience
10%
6.3
11%
6.4

When asked to select the five attributes that they believe make somewhere a good place to live, residents of Toowoomba were most likely to select [imp ATTRIBUTE 1 & (%)], [imp ATTRIBUTE 2 & (%)] and [imp ATTRIBUTE 3 & (%)]. When asked to rate their local area experiences against all 16 attributes, Toowoomba residents’ most positive experiences included [exp ATTRIBUTE 1 & (mean)], [exp ATTRIBUTE 2 & (mean)] and [imp ATTRIBUTE 3 & (mean)].

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