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 Poland live

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Arrived 2016–21

1,877

suburbs they live in

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

—

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
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	27	1.4%	8.5×	74	+235	19	0.6 km	51
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	26	1.4%	5.1×	82	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Wolli Creek	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	26	1.4%	5.0×	43	+2,964	26	3.0 km	65
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	22	1.2%	8.2×	83	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	22	1.2%	5.3×	67	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Erskineville - Alexandria	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	20	1.1%	7.6×	63	+2,045	19	0.8 km	63
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	20	1.1%	1.9×	36	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
St Leonards - Naremburn	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	20	1.1%	9.6×	44	+1,716	13	4.0 km	64
Mosman - North	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	20	1.1%	13.1×	77	-205	7	5.8 km	35
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	18	1.0%	2.5×	40	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Rostrevor - Magill	Campbelltown (SA)	South Australia	18	1.0%	5.4×	78	+2,398	11	3.2 km	65
North Sydney - Lavender Bay	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	17	0.9%	7.2×	52	+1,044	16	4.5 km	60
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	17	0.9%	2.8×	40	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	16	0.9%	4.7×	63	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Rosebery - Beaconsfield	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	16	0.9%	5.6×	49	+2,154	13	1.4 km	61
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	16	0.9%	2.9×	44	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	16	0.9%	3.7×	88	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Mosman - South	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	16	0.9%	12.4×	58	-531	9	6.4 km	35
Cronulla - Kurnell - Bundeena	Cronulla - Miranda - Caringbah	New South Wales	16	0.9%	19.9×	82	+726	4	1.0 km	56
Port Melbourne	Port Phillip	Victoria	15	0.8%	13.6×	93	-493	13	0.4 km	37
West End	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	15	0.8%	5.4×	38	+3,804	22	0.9 km	68
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	14	0.7%	1.8×	42	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	14	0.7%	4.0×	61	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	14	0.7%	3.9×	78	+569	10	4.0 km	57
Mordialloc - Parkdale	Kingston	Victoria	14	0.7%	15.7×	76	+483	15	3.0 km	58
Redfern	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	13	0.7%	5.7×	38	+340	13	1.2 km	54
Maroubra - South	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	13	0.7%	10.4×	95	+267	8	3.3 km	50
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	13	0.7%	5.9×	76	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Altona	Hobsons Bay	Victoria	13	0.7%	17.1×	43	+329	15	0.7 km	53
Chatswood (West) - Lane Cove North	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	12	0.6%	3.9×	110	+805	11	3.6 km	57
Sandringham - Black Rock	Bayside	Victoria	12	0.6%	15.0×	63	-21	8	2.8 km	38
East Perth	Perth City	Western Australia	12	0.6%	3.4×	46	+2,352	12	0.8 km	65
Malabar - La Perouse	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	11	0.6%	24.8×	59	-475	5	5.9 km	36
Kogarah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	11	0.6%	3.4×	43	+2,292	25	3.9 km	63
Freshwater - Brookvale	Warringah	New South Wales	11	0.6%	5.2×	50	+710	4	2.5 km	54
Manly Vale - Allambie Heights	Warringah	New South Wales	11	0.6%	10.5×	56	+69	4	3.7 km	45
Rowville - Central	Knox	Victoria	11	0.6%	12.6×	70	-193	23	2.5 km	37
Carina	Carindale	Queensland	11	0.6%	21.8×	41	+838	15	1.5 km	54
Wurtulla - Birtinya	Caloundra	Queensland	11	0.6%	22.0×	13	+1,700	5	4.5 km	62
Peregian Springs	Noosa	Queensland	11	0.6%	16.2×	29	+1,802	1	9.6 km	65

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.