Who has arrived, and where they live

People counted at their 2021 address who arrived in Australia between 2016 and 2021, by country of birth — from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2021 Census (Table G10), by the suburb they live in. This is observed settlement, not a forecast — but where a community already lives is the single best guide to where the next arrivals go.

Arrived 2016–21

1,210,855

Arrivals by country of birth

Country of birth	arrivals	Share	suburbs	Avg distance to a ACC church	No ACC church ≤10 km	%
India	233,078	19.2%	1,507	4.3 km	2,952	1.3%	Where they live →
Born elsewhere	215,130	17.8%	1,861	6.1 km	6,321	3.0%	Where they live →
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	135,927	11.2%	1,187	3.5 km	1,012	0.8%	Where they live →
Nepal	70,146	5.8%	770	4.0 km	987	1.5%	Where they live →
United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man	65,622	5.4%	1,261	5.5 km	2,407	3.9%	Where they live →
Philippines	63,468	5.2%	1,446	6.0 km	4,167	6.9%	Where they live →
New Zealand	49,041	4.1%	1,179	4.4 km	1,435	3.1%	Where they live →
Vietnam	34,860	2.9%	660	3.5 km	393	1.2%	Where they live →
Malaysia	34,131	2.8%	669	3.2 km	1,064	3.4%	Where they live →
Pakistan	30,544	2.5%	626	2.6 km	270	1.0%	Where they live →
Iraq	28,055	2.3%	192	2.2 km	35	0.1%	Where they live →
South Africa	26,582	2.2%	797	5.1 km	870	3.8%	Where they live →
Sri Lanka	24,011	2.0%	548	3.1 km	201	0.9%	Where they live →
United States of America	20,124	1.7%	594	3.1 km	365	2.2%	Where they live →
Indonesia	17,645	1.5%	398	3.0 km	234	1.6%	Where they live →
Thailand	17,396	1.4%	501	3.5 km	309	2.3%	Where they live →
Korea, Republic of (South)	15,565	1.3%	356	2.4 km	36	0.3%	Where they live →
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	14,947	1.2%	372	2.4 km	17	0.1%	Where they live →
Iran	13,236	1.1%	392	2.1 km	—	0.0%	Where they live →
Afghanistan	13,055	1.1%	186	2.5 km	83	0.7%	Where they live →
Taiwan	11,669	1.0%	310	4.2 km	453	4.9%	Where they live →
Bangladesh	10,749	0.9%	275	2.3 km	101	1.1%	Where they live →
Ireland	9,331	0.8%	200	2.8 km	54	0.7%	Where they live →
Singapore	9,069	0.7%	290	2.2 km	11	0.2%	Where they live →
Japan	7,800	0.6%	226	2.3 km	10	0.2%	Where they live →
Canada	6,871	0.6%	211	2.8 km	60	1.5%	Where they live →
Italy	6,409	0.5%	196	3.2 km	54	1.2%	Where they live →
Fiji	5,878	0.5%	184	4.4 km	151	3.8%	Where they live →
Lebanon	5,029	0.4%	124	1.9 km	11	0.3%	Where they live →
Germany	4,881	0.4%	152	2.9 km	41	1.4%	Where they live →
Egypt	4,566	0.4%	136	2.3 km	15	0.6%	Where they live →
Netherlands	2,039	0.2%	43	5.6 km	33	4.4%	Where they live →
Poland	1,877	0.2%	47	2.9 km	—	0.0%	Where they live →
Greece	1,169	0.1%	22	1.7 km	—	0.0%	Where they live →
North Macedonia	805	0.1%	20	2.1 km	—	0.0%	Where they live →
Croatia	150	0.0%	0	—	—	—	Where they live →

Where people born in Fiji live

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Arrived 2016–21

5,878

suburbs they live in

184

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

4.4 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

151

3.8% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Liverpool - East	Liverpool	New South Wales	104	1.8%	7.7×	570	+3,683	23	1.7 km	66
Doonside - Woodcroft	Blacktown	New South Wales	86	1.5%	11.0×	853	+131	33	0.5 km	47
Mount Druitt - Whalan	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	79	1.3%	8.1×	541	+469	19	0.8 km	55
Inverell	Inverell - Tenterfield	New South Wales	77	1.3%	65.5×	87	+246	1	0.2 km	53
Hassall Grove - Plumpton	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	67	1.1%	14.1×	963	-327	21	0.2 km	33
Bidwill - Hebersham - Emerton	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	60	1.0%	18.9×	453	+40	19	1.9 km	45
Rooty Hill - Minchinbury	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	58	1.0%	9.1×	659	+302	26	0.6 km	54
Ingleburn	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	52	0.9%	11.2×	335	+57	20	1.2 km	49
Blacktown (North) - Marayong	Blacktown	New South Wales	49	0.8%	4.5×	275	+772	31	1.8 km	53
Prestons	Liverpool	New South Wales	45	0.8%	23.2×	952	-485	19	1.0 km	32
Lethbridge Park - Tregear	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	44	0.7%	13.8×	372	+252	18	1.3 km	50
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	42	0.7%	2.3×	223	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Blacktown (East) - Kings Park	Blacktown	New South Wales	41	0.7%	3.1×	224	+493	31	1.7 km	56
Griffith (NSW)	Griffith - Murrumbidgee (West)	New South Wales	40	0.7%	4.3×	170	+277	2	1.8 km	60
Ashcroft - Busby - Miller	Bringelly - Green Valley	New South Wales	40	0.7%	10.1×	343	+37	24	1.9 km	48
Cabramatta - Lansvale	Fairfield	New South Wales	40	0.7%	3.8×	122	-879	32	0.5 km	36
Yagoona - Birrong	Bankstown	New South Wales	39	0.7%	7.1×	145	+924	43	1.7 km	57
Macquarie Fields	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	39	0.7%	11.5×	351	+50	14	2.8 km	43
Guildford West - Merrylands West	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	39	0.7%	4.9×	224	+1,525	41	1.8 km	62
Lurnea - Cartwright	Liverpool	New South Wales	38	0.6%	10.5×	251	+877	24	0.6 km	54
Wagga Wagga - North	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales	37	0.6%	36.8×	34	+937	5	6.6 km	62
Minto - St Andrews	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	37	0.6%	8.3×	576	-19	15	0.2 km	33
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	36	0.6%	1.9×	187	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
Merrylands - Holroyd	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	36	0.6%	2.7×	280	+1,937	41	1.4 km	62
Junee	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales	35	0.6%	39.0×	39	+1	0	37 km	52
Colyton - Oxley Park	St Marys	New South Wales	35	0.6%	14.3×	269	+1,165	17	0.7 km	53
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	35	0.6%	2.7×	179	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Blacktown - West	Blacktown	New South Wales	34	0.6%	4.0×	374	+457	35	2.8 km	54
Wagga Wagga - South	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales	33	0.6%	6.2×	44	+934	5	0.7 km	61
Canley Vale - Canley Heights	Fairfield	New South Wales	32	0.5%	3.7×	106	-57	32	1.0 km	34
Edmondson Park	Liverpool	New South Wales	32	0.5%	8.0×	491	+9,031	15	0.9 km	75
Tamworth - East	Tamworth - Gunnedah	New South Wales	31	0.5%	11.0×	53	+1,283	3	1.5 km	63
Campbelltown - Woodbine	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	31	0.5%	5.2×	307	+3,498	14	0.0 km	64
Mickleham - Yuroke	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	31	0.5%	2.5×	165	+21,192	3	7.5 km	86
Redbank Plains	Springfield - Redbank	Queensland	31	0.5%	5.2×	200	+4,918	13	0.6 km	68
Oran Park	Bringelly - Green Valley	New South Wales	29	0.5%	7.0×	287	+11,872	10	0.5 km	75
Leppington - Catherine Field	Bringelly - Green Valley	New South Wales	28	0.5%	12.3×	257	+9,579	17	4.9 km	79
Boronia Heights - Park Ridge	Browns Plains	Queensland	28	0.5%	6.0×	141	+9,690	8	1.7 km	77
Wagga Wagga - West	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales	27	0.5%	10.5×	46	-584	5	2.2 km	36
Punchbowl	Canterbury	New South Wales	27	0.5%	3.6×	179	+168	30	0.4 km	51

How to read this. Concentration is a location quotient: 3× means this group makes up three times the share of this suburb’s arrivals that it does across Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia(for the two “moved in” rows, the share of all residents). The figures are 2021 Census counts of people who arrived in the five years to 2021, so a single country’s count in one suburb can be small and noisy for a small country — treat small numbers as indicative. The data describes who had arrived by 2021, not who is arriving now, and it assumes the settlement patterns that produced it continue.