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 North Macedonia live

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Arrived 2016–21

805

suburbs they live in

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.1 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

—

0.0% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	53	6.6%	29.8×	453	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Balga - Mirrabooka	Stirling	Western Australia	28	3.5%	19.2×	248	+2,124	14	1.6 km	65
Madeley - Darch	Wanneroo	Western Australia	21	2.6%	59.8×	230	+975	12	2.3 km	60
Rockdale - Banksia	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	18	2.2%	8.3×	809	+1,592	27	4.4 km	66
Epping (Vic.) - West	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	17	2.1%	26.1×	344	+254	18	1.2 km	55
Landsdale	Wanneroo	Western Australia	17	2.1%	47.9×	184	+2,665	9	3.7 km	64
Liverpool - East	Liverpool	New South Wales	16	2.0%	8.6×	159	+3,683	23	1.7 km	66
Epping - South	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	16	2.0%	36.7×	297	-386	18	0.9 km	39
Epping - East	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	15	1.9%	37.7×	367	-475	18	2.1 km	40
Lalor - East	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	15	1.9%	24.4×	390	-429	16	1.1 km	34
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell	Melton - Bacchus Marsh	Victoria	14	1.7%	12.2×	59	+20,910	8	0.8 km	82
Mortdale - Oatley	Hurstville	New South Wales	13	1.6%	29.0×	270	+31	26	2.1 km	42
Sylvania - Taren Point	Cronulla - Miranda - Caringbah	New South Wales	13	1.6%	82.9×	138	-52	13	2.8 km	36
Kogarah Bay - Carlton - Allawah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	12	1.5%	13.0×	307	+489	27	2.7 km	56
Liverpool - West	Liverpool	New South Wales	12	1.5%	12.8×	94	+846	24	0.7 km	55
Nollamara - Westminster	Stirling	Western Australia	12	1.5%	7.9×	229	+2,880	15	1.3 km	68
Monterey - Brighton-le-Sands - Kyeemagh	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	10	1.2%	25.0×	226	-932	24	4.5 km	37
Lane Cove	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	10	1.2%	14.2×	30	+961	15	2.7 km	58
Lalor - West	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	10	1.2%	20.7×	689	+46	18	2.2 km	49
Werribee - South	Wyndham	Victoria	10	1.2%	9.8×	52	+2,844	16	2.3 km	64

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.