Toukley also provides various forms of accommodation to tourists including motels, caravan parks, holiday houses and lake cabins.
The town was originally called Toukley Oukley, said to be the Aboriginal name for the place, meaning "rough and smooth".
[3] Settlers shortened it to Toukley soon after the town was founded,[4] but it took until 1969 for the name to be officially changed.
The majority of residents (79.9%) were born in Australia, with the next most common countries of birth being England (3.7%) and New Zealand (1.5%).
The most common religious affiliations were No Religion (38.9%), Catholic (23.3%), and Anglican (17.9%), with Christianity overall representing 54.5% of the population.