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 Vietnam live

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Arrived 2016–21

34,860

suburbs they live in

660

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

3.5 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

393

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
Cabramatta - Lansvale	Fairfield	New South Wales	1,248	3.6%	20.2×	8,701	-879	32	0.5 km	36
Canley Vale - Canley Heights	Fairfield	New South Wales	816	2.3%	15.9×	6,909	-57	32	1.0 km	34
St Albans - North	Brimbank	Victoria	635	1.8%	8.2×	3,942	-929	24	0.8 km	39
Bankstown - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	625	1.8%	10.9×	3,487	+1,310	35	0.7 km	63
St Albans - South	Brimbank	Victoria	558	1.6%	10.2×	4,233	-863	24	1.5 km	39
Springvale	Dandenong	Victoria	530	1.5%	5.1×	4,655	+249	26	2.4 km	58
The Parks	Port Adelaide - West	South Australia	486	1.4%	8.4×	3,015	+1,514	11	2.6 km	65
Inala - Richlands	Forest Lake - Oxley	Queensland	447	1.3%	9.4×	3,553	+1,309	15	1.1 km	60
Braybrook	Maribyrnong	Victoria	389	1.1%	6.7×	3,447	+796	26	0.4 km	59
Cabramatta West - Mount Pritchard	Fairfield	New South Wales	379	1.1%	12.9×	4,036	+19	25	2.9 km	41
Sunshine North	Brimbank	Victoria	374	1.1%	13.6×	3,341	-28	24	1.0 km	39
Noble Park - West	Dandenong	Victoria	362	1.0%	4.4×	2,516	-15	26	0.5 km	38
Bankstown - North	Bankstown	New South Wales	320	0.9%	5.8×	1,980	+900	37	0.1 km	61
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	319	0.9%	1.4×	492	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Kings Park (Vic.)	Brimbank	Victoria	299	0.9%	13.3×	2,501	-767	20	2.5 km	35
Woodville - Cheltenham	Charles Sturt	South Australia	262	0.8%	6.4×	1,620	+1,408	5	1.9 km	61
Yagoona - Birrong	Bankstown	New South Wales	252	0.7%	7.7×	2,859	+924	43	1.7 km	57
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	249	0.7%	1.6×	367	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Springvale South	Dandenong	Victoria	233	0.7%	6.3×	2,521	-227	27	2.1 km	36
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	232	0.7%	1.3×	384	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Footscray	Maribyrnong	Victoria	219	0.6%	4.0×	1,460	+2,553	21	1.5 km	68
Chester Hill - Sefton	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	207	0.6%	6.1×	2,247	+1,180	41	1.9 km	58
Fairfield - East	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	206	0.6%	7.2×	2,310	-219	44	0.6 km	37
Sunshine West	Brimbank	Victoria	193	0.6%	5.4×	2,562	-1,191	27	1.9 km	38
Bonnyrigg Heights - Bonnyrigg	Fairfield	New South Wales	192	0.6%	7.4×	2,825	+222	25	3.5 km	51
Fairfield - West	Fairfield	New South Wales	185	0.5%	1.8×	2,379	+782	36	2.1 km	53
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	182	0.5%	1.4×	320	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Sunshine	Brimbank	Victoria	182	0.5%	5.3×	1,275	-247	23	0.3 km	39
Ashcroft - Busby - Miller	Bringelly - Green Valley	New South Wales	181	0.5%	7.7×	1,493	+37	24	1.9 km	48
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	180	0.5%	0.9×	397	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Deer Park	Brimbank	Victoria	166	0.5%	3.6×	1,784	-840	28	1.4 km	36
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	165	0.5%	1.3×	543	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Condell Park	Bankstown	New South Wales	155	0.4%	12.5×	1,275	+662	37	2.4 km	52
Balga - Mirrabooka	Stirling	Western Australia	152	0.4%	2.4×	1,089	+2,124	14	1.6 km	65
Marrickville - South	Marrickville - Sydenham - Petersham	New South Wales	147	0.4%	8.1×	880	-573	28	1.3 km	40
Fairfield	Fairfield	New South Wales	145	0.4%	1.4×	1,756	-53	42	0.4 km	37
Bass Hill - Georges Hall	Bankstown	New South Wales	144	0.4%	7.8×	1,698	+711	38	2.4 km	56
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	144	0.4%	1.1×	455	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Cairnlea	Brimbank	Victoria	143	0.4%	11.7×	2,107	-443	23	2.1 km	33
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	133	0.4%	0.9×	308	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62

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.