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 Indonesia live

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Arrived 2016–21

17,645

suburbs they live in

398

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

3.0 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

234

1.6% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	1,393	7.9%	13.9×	2,819	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	902	5.1%	12.5×	2,112	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	748	4.2%	6.5×	1,047	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	262	1.5%	2.9×	462	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Chippendale	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	259	1.5%	7.1×	440	+448	17	0.7 km	49
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	213	1.2%	3.1×	329	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Melbourne CBD - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	200	1.1%	4.6×	350	+1,063	16	0.9 km	58
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	174	1.0%	2.5×	451	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Ultimo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	159	0.9%	4.6×	295	+1,127	16	0.1 km	57
Kingsford	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	154	0.9%	4.7×	575	+694	10	0.3 km	54
Wolli Creek	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	154	0.9%	3.2×	460	+2,964	26	3.0 km	65
Nedlands - Dalkeith - Crawley	Cottesloe - Claremont	Western Australia	131	0.7%	4.8×	276	+2,249	9	6.2 km	66
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	124	0.7%	2.5×	448	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	124	0.7%	2.3×	597	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Sydney (North) - Millers Point	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	118	0.7%	5.2×	286	+55	17	1.9 km	45
Kensington (NSW)	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	110	0.6%	4.3×	345	-584	10	1.7 km	35
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	109	0.6%	2.2×	170	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	107	0.6%	1.6×	441	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	107	0.6%	3.2×	151	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Springvale	Dandenong	Victoria	103	0.6%	2.0×	261	+249	26	2.4 km	58
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	98	0.6%	1.5×	237	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Lakemba	Canterbury	New South Wales	96	0.5%	2.5×	424	-444	32	0.4 km	36
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	88	0.5%	1.7×	303	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	88	0.5%	1.8×	403	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Victoria Park - Lathlain - Burswood	Belmont - Victoria Park	Western Australia	87	0.5%	3.3×	222	+2,535	11	0.1 km	65
Pyrmont	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	83	0.5%	2.9×	263	+37	17	1.2 km	48
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	81	0.5%	1.7×	140	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	76	0.4%	1.6×	236	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	75	0.4%	2.3×	217	-224	13	1.4 km	36
East Perth	Perth City	Western Australia	73	0.4%	2.2×	196	+2,352	12	0.8 km	65
Pagewood - Hillsdale - Daceyville	Botany	New South Wales	69	0.4%	3.0×	356	+2,665	10	2.3 km	62
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	69	0.4%	1.3×	194	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Darwin City	Darwin City	Northern Territory	69	0.4%	3.4×	122	+640	1	0.3 km	61
Punchbowl	Canterbury	New South Wales	64	0.4%	2.9×	401	+168	30	0.4 km	51
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	62	0.4%	1.5×	177	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Thornlie	Gosnells	Western Australia	61	0.3%	3.5×	380	+1,631	7	1.8 km	62
Ryde - North	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	60	0.3%	2.5×	311	+223	19	2.7 km	54
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	60	0.3%	0.9×	157	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	60	0.3%	0.9×	193	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	60	0.3%	0.8×	110	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69

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.