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 Greece live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

1,169

suburbs they live in

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

1.7 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
Oakleigh - Huntingdale	Monash	Victoria	73	6.2%	34.6×	1,190	+1,448	19	2.2 km	63
Clayton South	Dandenong	Victoria	30	2.6%	12.7×	709	+989	24	1.1 km	58
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	26	2.2%	7.2×	432	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Belmore - Belfield	Canterbury	New South Wales	25	2.1%	22.6×	935	+430	32	1.3 km	54
Bankstown - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	24	2.1%	12.5×	261	+1,310	35	0.7 km	63
Monterey - Brighton-le-Sands - Kyeemagh	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	21	1.8%	36.2×	763	-932	24	4.5 km	37
Kogarah Bay - Carlton - Allawah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	19	1.6%	14.2×	468	+489	27	2.7 km	56
Canterbury - South	Canterbury	New South Wales	18	1.5%	16.1×	427	+1,755	36	1.4 km	58
Sans Souci - Ramsgate	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	17	1.5%	55.0×	714	-5	16	4.0 km	37
Clarinda - Oakleigh South	Dandenong	Victoria	17	1.5%	33.0×	759	-498	23	2.0 km	33
Roselands	Canterbury	New South Wales	16	1.4%	29.1×	519	+426	29	1.3 km	49
South Melbourne	Port Phillip	Victoria	15	1.3%	17.2×	137	+62	11	0.8 km	49
Endeavour Hills - South	Casey - North	Victoria	13	1.1%	22.9×	162	-425	27	1.9 km	29
Kingsgrove (South) - Bardwell Park	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	12	1.0%	29.3×	627	+29	32	1.7 km	44
Brunswick West	Brunswick - Coburg	Victoria	12	1.0%	12.4×	323	+684	24	2.6 km	58
Hughesdale	Glen Eira	Victoria	12	1.0%	20.7×	401	+126	18	2.0 km	49
Werribee - South	Wyndham	Victoria	12	1.0%	8.1×	101	+2,844	16	2.3 km	64
Earlwood	Canterbury	New South Wales	11	0.9%	36.6×	1,322	-322	35	2.5 km	34
Balwyn North	Boroondara	Victoria	11	0.9%	6.8×	354	+341	13	1.2 km	54
Narwee - Beverly Hills	Hurstville	New South Wales	10	0.9%	13.2×	268	-366	28	0.4 km	33
Thomastown	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	10	0.9%	6.5×	816	-883	15	0.4 km	37
Mulgrave	Monash	Victoria	10	0.9%	8.8×	538	+254	29	0.6 km	54

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.