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 Ireland live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

9,331

suburbs they live in

200

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.8 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

0.7% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Coogee - Clovelly	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	368	3.9%	22.3×	741	-365	10	2.9 km	34
Randwick - South	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	359	3.8%	27.0×	622	+56	10	1.7 km	45
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	297	3.2%	7.8×	478	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	279	3.0%	10.2×	420	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Randwick - North	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	241	2.6%	23.8×	630	-614	10	2.5 km	34
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	216	2.3%	8.6×	384	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	211	2.3%	11.9×	467	+569	10	4.0 km	57
St Kilda - Central	Port Phillip	Victoria	195	2.1%	17.0×	314	-35	11	4.7 km	40
Pagewood - Hillsdale - Daceyville	Botany	New South Wales	192	2.1%	15.9×	430	+2,665	10	2.3 km	62
St Kilda - West	Port Phillip	Victoria	170	1.8%	12.9×	280	+177	11	4.0 km	54
South Yarra - North	Stonnington - West	Victoria	143	1.5%	9.6×	187	+1,264	12	2.2 km	61
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	137	1.5%	6.4×	275	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Rosebery - Beaconsfield	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	135	1.4%	9.6×	325	+2,154	13	1.4 km	61
Prahran - Windsor	Stonnington - West	Victoria	130	1.4%	10.8×	230	-315	12	3.9 km	41
St Kilda East	Port Phillip	Victoria	120	1.3%	11.3×	230	-478	10	5.4 km	39
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	116	1.2%	6.7×	291	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Albert Park	Port Phillip	Victoria	99	1.1%	8.9×	183	+13	9	1.9 km	45
Nollamara - Westminster	Stirling	Western Australia	97	1.0%	5.5×	313	+2,880	15	1.3 km	68
Maroubra - West	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	77	0.8%	9.3×	226	+187	10	2.1 km	47
Caulfield - North	Glen Eira	Victoria	71	0.8%	4.9×	119	+1,226	12	4.7 km	62
Scarborough	Stirling	Western Australia	67	0.7%	8.1×	293	+2,807	9	4.9 km	65
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	65	0.7%	3.0×	144	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
South Yarra - South	Stonnington - West	Victoria	64	0.7%	8.8×	111	-1,353	12	2.9 km	37
Elsternwick	Glen Eira	Victoria	63	0.7%	13.0×	154	+188	10	3.9 km	53
Botany	Botany	New South Wales	61	0.7%	18.4×	293	+1,134	11	0.9 km	59
Erskineville - Alexandria	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	59	0.6%	4.5×	207	+2,045	19	0.8 km	63
Richmond (South) - Cremorne	Yarra	Victoria	59	0.6%	7.8×	141	+10	12	0.7 km	47
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	58	0.6%	1.6×	103	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Caulfield - South	Glen Eira	Victoria	57	0.6%	7.6×	123	+113	12	2.5 km	52
Cottesloe	Cottesloe - Claremont	Western Australia	50	0.5%	23.5×	87	+796	2	7.7 km	59
Fremantle	Fremantle	Western Australia	50	0.5%	9.7×	188	+3,094	5	6.2 km	70
Subiaco - Shenton Park	Perth City	Western Australia	49	0.5%	5.7×	193	+2,203	10	3.1 km	65
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	48	0.5%	2.8×	145	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Elwood	Port Phillip	Victoria	48	0.5%	7.1×	163	-322	10	5.8 km	39
Darwin City	Darwin City	Northern Territory	48	0.5%	4.5×	79	+640	1	0.3 km	61
Maroubra - South	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	47	0.5%	7.5×	194	+267	8	3.3 km	50
Fitzroy	Yarra	Victoria	47	0.5%	8.7×	74	+511	14	1.9 km	56
Wembley - West Leederville - Glendalough	Perth City	Western Australia	47	0.5%	2.5×	301	+2,194	10	2.5 km	61
South Yarra - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	46	0.5%	8.6×	65	-162	12	2.5 km	32
Perth (North) - Highgate	Perth City	Western Australia	46	0.5%	4.3×	141	+1,620	12	1.5 km	63

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.