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 Philippines live

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Arrived 2016–21

63,468

suburbs they live in

1,446

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

6.0 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

4,167

6.9% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Doonside - Woodcroft	Blacktown	New South Wales	527	0.8%	6.3×	2,933	+131	33	0.5 km	47
Rooty Hill - Minchinbury	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	374	0.6%	5.4×	3,003	+302	26	0.6 km	54
Wellard (West) - Bertram	Kwinana	Western Australia	368	0.6%	6.0×	1,604	+4,933	2	5.6 km	74
Kilcoy	Caboolture Hinterland	Queensland	363	0.6%	16.3×	538	+351	0	38 km	69
Mount Druitt - Whalan	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	291	0.5%	2.8×	1,828	+469	19	0.8 km	55
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	264	0.4%	0.8×	436	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Hassall Grove - Plumpton	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	260	0.4%	5.1×	2,920	-327	21	0.2 km	33
West Ryde - Meadowbank	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	233	0.4%	1.9×	634	+1,022	20	2.4 km	56
Blacktown (North) - Marayong	Blacktown	New South Wales	222	0.3%	1.9×	1,330	+772	31	1.8 km	53
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	218	0.3%	0.9×	635	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	211	0.3%	0.5×	332	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Cranbourne East - North	Casey - South	Victoria	209	0.3%	2.1×	972	+2,260	18	1.1 km	64
Marsden Park - Shanes Park	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	208	0.3%	2.9×	1,506	+21,059	18	4.9 km	80
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	208	0.3%	1.0×	684	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
Blacktown (East) - Kings Park	Blacktown	New South Wales	206	0.3%	1.4×	740	+493	31	1.7 km	56
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell	Melton - Bacchus Marsh	Victoria	206	0.3%	2.3×	798	+20,910	8	0.8 km	82
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	204	0.3%	1.0×	914	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	198	0.3%	1.0×	885	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Quakers Hill	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	195	0.3%	1.6×	1,293	+1,367	25	1.0 km	58
North Parramatta	Parramatta	New South Wales	185	0.3%	0.9×	644	-578	34	1.0 km	40
Blacktown - West	Blacktown	New South Wales	179	0.3%	1.9×	1,104	+457	35	2.8 km	54
Sunnybank	Sunnybank	Queensland	178	0.3%	2.4×	263	+845	25	1.5 km	51
Harvey	Bunbury	Western Australia	176	0.3%	9.3×	404	+952	0	31 km	74
Griffith (NSW)	Griffith - Murrumbidgee (West)	New South Wales	174	0.3%	1.7×	361	+277	2	1.8 km	60
Beckenham - Kenwick - Langford	Gosnells	Western Australia	174	0.3%	1.9×	884	+2,636	10	2.3 km	67
Maddington - Orange Grove - Martin	Gosnells	Western Australia	171	0.3%	3.2×	923	+2,264	4	1.9 km	65
Rockdale - Banksia	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	168	0.3%	1.0×	594	+1,592	27	4.4 km	66
St Albans - North	Brimbank	Victoria	167	0.3%	1.2×	520	-929	24	0.8 km	39
St Albans - South	Brimbank	Victoria	166	0.3%	1.7×	631	-863	24	1.5 km	39
Dandenong - North	Dandenong	Victoria	160	0.3%	0.8×	427	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Kogarah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	157	0.2%	1.4×	549	+2,292	25	3.9 km	63
Werribee - West	Wyndham	Victoria	155	0.2%	1.5×	508	+12,901	9	0.9 km	80
Mickleham - Yuroke	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	153	0.2%	1.1×	541	+21,192	3	7.5 km	86
Gosnells	Gosnells	Western Australia	151	0.2%	3.0×	773	+2,352	4	3.1 km	67
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	148	0.2%	0.8×	387	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Hornsby - East	Hornsby	New South Wales	148	0.2%	1.5×	470	+75	4	0.7 km	52
Kingswood - Werrington	Penrith	New South Wales	148	0.2%	2.5×	848	+4,156	13	1.7 km	65
Tarneit - Central	Wyndham	Victoria	147	0.2%	0.7×	957	+1,442	19	1.6 km	58
Southport - North	Southport	Queensland	146	0.2%	1.3×	418	+2,839	7	1.5 km	69
St Marys - North St Marys	St Marys	New South Wales	145	0.2%	3.5×	721	+1,338	18	0.9 km	59

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.