Summary of the Toowoomba region

The Toowoomba region is located in south-east Queensland, about 125 kilometres west of Brisbane. It is bounded by the South Burnett Region in the north, the Somerset Region and the Lockyer Valley Region in the east, the Southern Downs Region and the Goondiwindi Region in the south, and the Dalby Region in the west.

The Toowoomba region is a growing residential area, with significant rural and rural-residential areas, and some industrial and commercial land use. It encompasses a total land area of about 13,000 square kilometres. The main urban centre is Toowoomba, with smaller urban areas in the townships of Clifton, Crows Nest, Goombungee, Millmerran, Oakey, Pittsworth and Yarraman, and numerous villages. Rural land is used largely for beef and dairy cattle, crop and cereal growing, vegetable growing and sheep grazing, with some energy production, forestry and tourism.

Toowoomba is thought to be named either after a property in the area in the 1850s, or from an Aboriginal word meaning "place where water sits" or "place of melon" or "place where reeds grow" or "berries place" or "white man".

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