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 Lebanon live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

5,029

suburbs they live in

124

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

1.9 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

0.3% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Guildford - South Granville	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	176	3.5%	29.3×	2,627	+814	42	2.6 km	58
Guildford West - Merrylands West	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	137	2.7%	20.1×	1,646	+1,525	41	1.8 km	62
Punchbowl	Canterbury	New South Wales	130	2.6%	20.3×	2,553	+168	30	0.4 km	51
Bass Hill - Georges Hall	Bankstown	New South Wales	119	2.4%	44.8×	1,957	+711	38	2.4 km	56
Chester Hill - Sefton	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	119	2.4%	24.2×	1,525	+1,180	41	1.9 km	58
Yagoona - Birrong	Bankstown	New South Wales	108	2.1%	22.9×	1,742	+924	43	1.7 km	57
Bankstown - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	103	2.0%	12.5×	1,161	+1,310	35	0.7 km	63
Bankstown - North	Bankstown	New South Wales	102	2.0%	12.8×	995	+900	37	0.1 km	61
Merrylands - Holroyd	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	102	2.0%	8.9×	1,553	+1,937	41	1.4 km	62
Greenacre - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	98	1.9%	49.6×	1,980	+136	35	1.2 km	47
Campbellfield - Coolaroo	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	87	1.7%	16.8×	894	-757	18	2.1 km	36
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	76	1.5%	4.6×	1,573	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
Meadow Heights	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	75	1.5%	15.7×	643	-953	15	4.6 km	38
Greystanes - South	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	73	1.5%	43.1×	781	+51	38	1.7 km	46
Broadmeadows	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	72	1.4%	8.4×	600	-31	17	2.6 km	42
Greenacre - North	Bankstown	New South Wales	69	1.4%	34.0×	1,782	+471	37	1.3 km	52
Condell Park	Bankstown	New South Wales	66	1.3%	36.8×	1,257	+662	37	2.4 km	52
Smithfield - Wetherill Park	Fairfield	New South Wales	64	1.3%	6.8×	377	+467	37	2.3 km	52
Fairfield	Fairfield	New South Wales	60	1.2%	4.0×	266	-53	42	0.4 km	37
Fairfield - West	Fairfield	New South Wales	59	1.2%	4.0×	263	+782	36	2.1 km	53
Bexley - North	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	56	1.1%	54.8×	636	-331	31	2.7 km	34
Liverpool - East	Liverpool	New South Wales	56	1.1%	4.8×	186	+3,683	23	1.7 km	66
Glenroy - East	Moreland - North	Victoria	55	1.1%	8.5×	481	+117	17	1.3 km	52
Lurnea - Cartwright	Liverpool	New South Wales	53	1.1%	17.1×	727	+877	24	0.6 km	54
Arncliffe - Bardwell Valley	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	51	1.0%	6.6×	947	+1,242	27	3.8 km	64
Belmore - Belfield	Canterbury	New South Wales	46	0.9%	9.7×	999	+430	32	1.3 km	54
Ashcroft - Busby - Miller	Bringelly - Green Valley	New South Wales	45	0.9%	13.3×	956	+37	24	1.9 km	48
Bossley Park - Abbotsbury	Fairfield	New South Wales	44	0.9%	5.9×	199	-266	26	0.5 km	31
Fairfield - East	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	42	0.8%	10.2×	788	-219	44	0.6 km	37
Craigieburn - South	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	42	0.8%	4.0×	202	+3,329	7	1.7 km	68
Roselands	Canterbury	New South Wales	40	0.8%	16.9×	743	+426	29	1.3 km	49
Wiley Park	Canterbury	New South Wales	40	0.8%	6.7×	573	-252	31	0.5 km	38
Roxburgh Park - North	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	39	0.8%	6.5×	347	+725	11	1.5 km	54
Bexley - South	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	37	0.7%	5.4×	488	-587	30	2.9 km	39
North Parramatta	Parramatta	New South Wales	37	0.7%	2.3×	404	-578	34	1.0 km	40
Altona North	Hobsons Bay	Victoria	37	0.7%	15.6×	504	+451	20	1.5 km	59
Craigieburn - West	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	35	0.7%	3.5×	112	+2,855	4	3.7 km	63
Revesby	Bankstown	New South Wales	32	0.6%	10.4×	612	+911	31	1.2 km	55
Rockdale - Banksia	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	32	0.6%	2.4×	419	+1,592	27	4.4 km	66
South Wentworthville	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	32	0.6%	17.4×	570	+326	38	1.7 km	48

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.