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 Singapore live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

9,069

suburbs they live in

290

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.2 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

0.2% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	187	2.1%	4.8×	257	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Nedlands - Dalkeith - Crawley	Cottesloe - Claremont	Western Australia	141	1.6%	10.1×	427	+2,249	9	6.2 km	66
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	108	1.2%	4.3×	292	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	96	1.1%	1.6×	220	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	90	1.0%	3.5×	132	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Willetton	Canning	Western Australia	79	0.9%	7.8×	556	+1,966	12	0.8 km	60
Point Cook - South	Wyndham	Victoria	78	0.9%	3.4×	229	+1,443	17	1.7 km	64
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	73	0.8%	4.2×	102	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	72	0.8%	2.0×	159	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Glen Waverley - West	Monash	Victoria	70	0.8%	3.0×	281	+1,772	22	0.8 km	62
Piara Waters - Forrestdale	Armadale	Western Australia	69	0.8%	7.5×	320	+6,151	5	5.1 km	76
Riverton - Shelley - Rossmoyne	Canning	Western Australia	69	0.8%	8.9×	353	+1,387	15	2.7 km	58
Canning Vale - East	Gosnells	Western Australia	65	0.7%	5.0×	630	+2,148	7	2.5 km	65
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	63	0.7%	1.4×	159	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Gordon - Killara	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	62	0.7%	4.3×	204	+725	8	3.7 km	64
Kensington (NSW)	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	61	0.7%	4.6×	123	-584	10	1.7 km	35
Kelvin Grove - Herston	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	61	0.7%	4.5×	91	+1,052	17	1.3 km	57
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	60	0.7%	1.6×	194	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
East Perth	Perth City	Western Australia	58	0.6%	3.4×	219	+2,352	12	0.8 km	65
Murdoch - Kardinya	Melville	Western Australia	57	0.6%	9.9×	257	+1,323	7	2.6 km	60
Glen Waverley - East	Monash	Victoria	53	0.6%	3.1×	312	-82	23	1.1 km	37
Woolloongabba	Holland Park - Yeronga	Queensland	53	0.6%	4.8×	90	+2,279	22	0.8 km	64
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	52	0.6%	2.5×	196	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	49	0.5%	2.4×	101	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Point Cook - East	Wyndham	Victoria	49	0.5%	2.5×	175	+3,502	13	1.5 km	61
Bellevue Heights	Mitcham	South Australia	46	0.5%	9.8×	70	+718	3	3.0 km	54
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	45	0.5%	1.3×	160	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	44	0.5%	1.7×	109	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	43	0.5%	1.7×	149	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Doncaster East - South	Manningham - West	Victoria	41	0.5%	3.0×	159	+884	14	0.5 km	58
Lindfield - Roseville	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	40	0.4%	3.6×	214	+396	7	2.1 km	61
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	40	0.4%	1.4×	208	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Applecross - Ardross	Melville	Western Australia	39	0.4%	9.8×	235	+1,120	12	2.9 km	60
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	37	0.4%	1.1×	157	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Toowong	Brisbane Inner - West	Queensland	37	0.4%	3.2×	75	+990	21	2.5 km	59
Victoria Park - Lathlain - Burswood	Belmont - Victoria Park	Western Australia	37	0.4%	2.8×	179	+2,535	11	0.1 km	65
Chippendale	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	36	0.4%	1.9×	78	+448	17	0.7 km	49
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	35	0.4%	1.4×	76	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Bull Creek	Melville	Western Australia	35	0.4%	11.3×	205	+478	11	1.9 km	50
Warradale	Marion	South Australia	34	0.4%	3.8×	74	+1,590	3	2.5 km	63

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.