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 Malaysia live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

34,131

suburbs they live in

669

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

3.2 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

1,064

3.4% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	932	2.7%	4.2×	1,552	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Springvale	Dandenong	Victoria	685	2.0%	6.8×	1,022	+249	26	2.4 km	58
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	528	1.5%	4.2×	1,136	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Noble Park - West	Dandenong	Victoria	464	1.4%	5.8×	634	-15	26	0.5 km	38
Mildura - North	Mildura	Victoria	447	1.3%	13.9×	587	-624	2	4.1 km	42
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	447	1.3%	3.0×	648	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	429	1.3%	2.4×	844	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	350	1.0%	3.7×	966	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	336	1.0%	2.5×	651	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Melbourne CBD - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	328	1.0%	3.9×	677	+1,063	16	0.9 km	58
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	325	1.0%	2.5×	532	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Robinvale	Murray River - Swan Hill	Victoria	317	0.9%	20.5×	453	-11	0	66 km	33
Doncaster	Manningham - West	Victoria	294	0.9%	3.9×	1,359	+3,655	12	2.5 km	67
Campsie - North	Canterbury	New South Wales	286	0.8%	4.7×	519	-145	39	0.8 km	34
Glen Waverley - West	Monash	Victoria	272	0.8%	3.1×	1,142	+1,772	22	0.8 km	62
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	267	0.8%	1.4×	529	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Springvale South	Dandenong	Victoria	261	0.8%	7.2×	382	-227	27	2.1 km	36
Campsie - South	Canterbury	New South Wales	258	0.8%	4.9×	473	-171	37	1.6 km	33
Shepparton - South East	Shepparton	Victoria	257	0.8%	7.1×	368	-109	1	5.5 km	43
Willetton	Canning	Western Australia	249	0.7%	6.5×	1,639	+1,966	12	0.8 km	60
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	232	0.7%	2.4×	413	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Noble Park - East	Dandenong	Victoria	227	0.7%	4.0×	336	+44	30	0.5 km	48
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	225	0.7%	2.1×	818	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Doncaster East - South	Manningham - West	Victoria	217	0.6%	4.3×	896	+884	14	0.5 km	58
Griffith (NSW)	Griffith - Murrumbidgee (West)	New South Wales	207	0.6%	3.8×	240	+277	2	1.8 km	60
Mildura - South	Mildura	Victoria	204	0.6%	9.3×	296	+557	2	2.0 km	62
Glen Waverley - East	Monash	Victoria	198	0.6%	3.0×	1,239	-82	23	1.1 km	37
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	193	0.6%	3.0×	321	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	192	0.6%	1.4×	631	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	184	0.5%	1.8×	369	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Canning Vale - East	Gosnells	Western Australia	177	0.5%	3.6×	1,351	+2,148	7	2.5 km	65
Box Hill North	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	171	0.5%	3.5×	730	+642	15	2.0 km	57
Dandenong - North	Dandenong	Victoria	145	0.4%	1.4×	262	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Cobram	Moira	Victoria	139	0.4%	20.4×	199	+92	1	0.7 km	45
Cabramatta - Lansvale	Fairfield	New South Wales	131	0.4%	2.2×	257	-879	32	0.5 km	36
North Melbourne	Melbourne City	Victoria	128	0.4%	2.0×	416	+1,128	14	1.1 km	61
Parkwood - Ferndale - Lynwood	Canning	Western Australia	128	0.4%	5.8×	923	+860	12	1.8 km	55
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	125	0.4%	0.9×	392	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Rostrevor - Magill	Campbelltown (SA)	South Australia	122	0.4%	2.0×	527	+2,398	11	3.2 km	65
Keysborough - North	Dandenong	Victoria	120	0.4%	4.1×	213	-760	30	1.0 km	35

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.