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 Netherlands live

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Arrived 2016–21

2,039

suburbs they live in

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

5.6 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

4.4% 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	68	3.3%	15.2×	152	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	45	2.2%	9.7×	102	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Coogee - Clovelly	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	35	1.7%	9.7×	73	-365	10	2.9 km	34
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	33	1.6%	8.7×	63	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Byron Bay	Richmond Valley - Coastal	New South Wales	32	1.6%	18.8×	60	+560	1	4.7 km	59
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	25	1.2%	6.7×	49	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Balgowlah - Clontarf - Seaforth	Manly	New South Wales	22	1.1%	17.0×	98	-267	3	5.4 km	39
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	21	1.0%	7.2×	52	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
St Kilda - West	Port Phillip	Victoria	21	1.0%	7.3×	43	+177	11	4.0 km	54
Freshwater - Brookvale	Warringah	New South Wales	20	1.0%	8.8×	115	+710	4	2.5 km	54
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	18	0.9%	7.5×	46	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Brighton (Vic.)	Bayside	Victoria	18	0.9%	10.1×	73	-417	5	3.1 km	39
Mosman - North	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	17	0.8%	10.2×	46	-205	7	5.8 km	35
Redfern	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	16	0.8%	6.5×	38	+340	13	1.2 km	54
Paddington - Moore Park	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	15	0.7%	9.7×	39	-376	12	2.9 km	36
Bellevue Hill	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	15	0.7%	10.1×	29	-269	10	5.3 km	36
Balmain	Leichhardt	New South Wales	15	0.7%	14.4×	68	-425	19	2.9 km	28
Manly Vale - Allambie Heights	Warringah	New South Wales	15	0.7%	13.2×	68	+69	4	3.7 km	45
Karrinyup - Gwelup - Carine	Stirling	Western Australia	15	0.7%	15.2×	114	+1,856	12	3.6 km	66
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	14	0.7%	4.1×	53	+235	19	0.6 km	51
Albert Park	Port Phillip	Victoria	14	0.7%	5.8×	60	+13	9	1.9 km	45
Wembley - West Leederville - Glendalough	Perth City	Western Australia	14	0.7%	3.5×	68	+2,194	10	2.5 km	61
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	14	0.7%	3.0×	26	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Maroubra - South	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	13	0.6%	9.6×	23	+267	8	3.3 km	50
Mentone	Kingston	Victoria	13	0.6%	15.1×	50	+62	14	4.0 km	50
Altona	Hobsons Bay	Victoria	13	0.6%	15.8×	55	+329	15	0.7 km	53
Scarborough	Stirling	Western Australia	13	0.6%	7.2×	61	+2,807	9	4.9 km	65
Nedlands - Dalkeith - Crawley	Cottesloe - Claremont	Western Australia	12	0.6%	3.8×	69	+2,249	9	6.2 km	66
Broome	Kimberley	Western Australia	12	0.6%	15.1×	35	+1,206	0	95 km	78
Torquay	Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula	Victoria	11	0.5%	20.9×	120	+4,219	0	11 km	76
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	11	0.5%	0.9×	20	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Mosman - South	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	11	0.5%	7.9×	75	-531	9	6.4 km	35
Dee Why - North	Warringah	New South Wales	11	0.5%	2.7×	67	+1,087	5	0.3 km	57
Richmond (South) - Cremorne	Yarra	Victoria	11	0.5%	6.7×	33	+10	12	0.7 km	47
New Farm	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	11	0.5%	7.5×	36	+294	21	2.9 km	53
East Perth	Perth City	Western Australia	11	0.5%	2.8×	37	+2,352	12	0.8 km	65
Fremantle	Fremantle	Western Australia	11	0.5%	9.8×	72	+3,094	5	6.2 km	70
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	10	0.5%	1.8×	33	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Brunswick - South	Brunswick - Coburg	Victoria	10	0.5%	6.7×	40	+745	18	3.6 km	60
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	10	0.5%	1.5×	22	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72

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.