[2][3] In the 2021 census, Toolara Forest had "no people or a very low population".

In the north-east there are two road junctions off Tin Can Bay; the Maryborough-Cooloola Road heads north-west towards Maryborough via Tuan Forest, while the Rainbow Beach Road heads south-east via Cooloola to Rainbow Beach on the Pacific Ocean coast.

[4] The land use is almost entirely dedicated to the Toolara State Forest with the exception of a narrow strip of land in the east of the locality bounded by Rainbow Beach Road which contains the Cooloola Coast Cemetery and the remainder is a small part of the Great Sandy National Park which is mostly in the neighbouring locality of Cooloola.

[4] In the 2016 census, Toolara Forest had "no people or a very low population".

[5] In the 2021 census, Toolara Forest had "no people or a very low population".