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 Germany live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

4,881

suburbs they live in

152

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.9 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

1.4% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	70	1.4%	6.5×	274	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	61	1.3%	5.5×	216	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Coogee - Clovelly	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	56	1.1%	6.5×	180	-365	10	2.9 km	34
Byron Bay	Richmond Valley - Coastal	New South Wales	55	1.1%	13.5×	149	+560	1	4.7 km	59
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	45	0.9%	6.4×	177	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
Freshwater - Brookvale	Warringah	New South Wales	42	0.9%	7.7×	187	+710	4	2.5 km	54
West End	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	40	0.8%	5.6×	116	+3,804	22	0.9 km	68
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	38	0.8%	2.7×	72	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
St Kilda - West	Port Phillip	Victoria	37	0.8%	5.4×	114	+177	11	4.0 km	54
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	35	0.7%	2.7×	92	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	35	0.7%	3.9×	165	+328	7	4.6 km	53
St Kilda - Central	Port Phillip	Victoria	35	0.7%	5.8×	91	-35	11	4.7 km	40
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	32	0.7%	1.7×	67	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Brunswick East	Brunswick - Coburg	Victoria	31	0.6%	9.1×	70	+1,726	19	2.7 km	62
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	30	0.6%	3.3×	121	+569	10	4.0 km	57
Elwood	Port Phillip	Victoria	30	0.6%	8.5×	121	-322	10	5.8 km	39
Perth (North) - Highgate	Perth City	Western Australia	29	0.6%	5.2×	63	+1,620	12	1.5 km	63
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	28	0.6%	1.0×	52	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Prahran - Windsor	Stonnington - West	Victoria	28	0.6%	4.4×	90	-315	12	3.9 km	41
South Yarra - North	Stonnington - West	Victoria	27	0.6%	3.5×	45	+1,264	12	2.2 km	61
Fremantle	Fremantle	Western Australia	27	0.6%	10.0×	151	+3,094	5	6.2 km	70
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	26	0.5%	4.6×	113	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Cairns City	Cairns - South	Queensland	25	0.5%	4.5×	106	+566	7	1.2 km	58
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	24	0.5%	2.9×	141	+235	19	0.6 km	51
Dee Why - North	Warringah	New South Wales	24	0.5%	2.5×	123	+1,087	5	0.3 km	57
Brighton (Vic.)	Bayside	Victoria	24	0.5%	5.6×	155	-417	5	3.1 km	39
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	24	0.5%	2.6×	75	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	23	0.5%	2.6×	101	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Kingsford	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	23	0.5%	2.5×	46	+694	10	0.3 km	54
Randwick - North	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	23	0.5%	4.3×	123	-614	10	2.5 km	34
North Melbourne	Melbourne City	Victoria	23	0.5%	2.5×	71	+1,128	14	1.1 km	61
Albert Park	Port Phillip	Victoria	23	0.5%	4.0×	103	+13	9	1.9 km	45
Fitzroy North	Yarra	Victoria	23	0.5%	11.4×	79	+89	16	3.3 km	52
New Farm	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	23	0.5%	6.5×	71	+294	21	2.9 km	53
Maroochydore - Kuluin	Maroochy	Queensland	23	0.5%	4.9×	150	+3,270	6	0.3 km	69
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	23	0.5%	2.0×	61	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Pyrmont	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	22	0.5%	2.8×	65	+37	17	1.2 km	48
Dee Why (South) - North Curl Curl	Warringah	New South Wales	22	0.5%	9.8×	70	+38	5	1.1 km	44
Airlie - Whitsundays	Whitsunday	Queensland	22	0.5%	6.3×	101	+1,914	1	6.1 km	70
Glenelg (SA)	Holdfast Bay	South Australia	22	0.5%	5.1×	162	+840	3	4.7 km	61

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.