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 Italy live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

6,409

suburbs they live in

196

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

3.2 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

1.2% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	120	1.9%	8.2×	299	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Pyrmont	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	72	1.1%	7.0×	184	+37	17	1.2 km	48
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	69	1.1%	5.7×	247	+569	10	4.0 km	57
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	63	1.0%	1.7×	126	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	63	1.0%	5.3×	236	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Byron Bay	Richmond Valley - Coastal	New South Wales	60	0.9%	11.2×	140	+560	1	4.7 km	59
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	60	0.9%	3.5×	157	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	59	0.9%	2.3×	143	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Five Dock - Abbotsford	Canada Bay	New South Wales	55	0.9%	20.2×	1,371	-73	28	1.5 km	35
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	54	0.8%	2.9×	116	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	54	0.8%	3.6×	116	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Cairns City	Cairns - South	Queensland	50	0.8%	6.9×	97	+566	7	1.2 km	58
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	49	0.8%	3.5×	174	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	48	0.7%	1.1×	71	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	46	0.7%	1.4×	95	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
East Perth	Perth City	Western Australia	46	0.7%	3.8×	120	+2,352	12	0.8 km	65
Darlinghurst	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	45	0.7%	7.5×	116	-469	13	1.9 km	31
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	45	0.7%	4.9×	161	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	43	0.7%	1.7×	212	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	42	0.7%	3.6×	133	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Newtown (NSW)	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	40	0.6%	7.4×	84	-734	21	1.9 km	30
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	39	0.6%	3.6×	142	+235	19	0.6 km	51
Concord - Mortlake - Cabarita	Canada Bay	New South Wales	39	0.6%	9.0×	1,049	+324	34	0.5 km	54
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	37	0.6%	2.1×	79	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Hamilton Hill	Cockburn	Western Australia	37	0.6%	18.7×	429	+1,455	6	3.7 km	63
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	36	0.6%	1.4×	145	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Newstead - Bowen Hills	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	36	0.6%	3.6×	96	+4,566	19	1.3 km	68
Perth (North) - Highgate	Perth City	Western Australia	36	0.6%	4.9×	144	+1,620	12	1.5 km	63
Nollamara - Westminster	Stirling	Western Australia	36	0.6%	3.0×	281	+2,880	15	1.3 km	68
Sydney (North) - Millers Point	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	35	0.5%	4.2×	64	+55	17	1.9 km	45
Ultimo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	34	0.5%	2.7×	71	+1,127	16	0.1 km	57
St Kilda - West	Port Phillip	Victoria	34	0.5%	3.8×	106	+177	11	4.0 km	54
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	34	0.5%	1.2×	104	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Dee Why - North	Warringah	New South Wales	33	0.5%	2.6×	213	+1,087	5	0.3 km	57
Surfers Paradise - South	Surfers Paradise	Queensland	33	0.5%	3.0×	136	+2,843	7	0.6 km	68
West End	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	32	0.5%	3.4×	81	+3,804	22	0.9 km	68
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	32	0.5%	1.8×	57	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Double Bay - Darling Point	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	31	0.5%	9.3×	83	-340	11	3.7 km	33
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	31	0.5%	4.1×	109	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Erskineville - Alexandria	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	30	0.5%	3.3×	108	+2,045	19	0.8 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.