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 China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

135,927

suburbs they live in

1,187

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

1,012

0.8% 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	2,543	1.9%	2.9×	4,168	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	2,156	1.6%	4.3×	5,366	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	1,966	1.4%	3.3×	2,865	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	1,669	1.2%	3.3×	4,772	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	1,547	1.1%	2.9×	2,320	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	1,237	0.9%	3.1×	2,592	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	1,182	0.9%	1.5×	3,036	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Glen Waverley - West	Monash	Victoria	1,136	0.8%	3.2×	3,837	+1,772	22	0.8 km	62
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	1,135	0.8%	2.5×	4,239	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	1,117	0.8%	1.6×	2,216	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	1,093	0.8%	2.8×	3,942	+898	8	1.7 km	57
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	1,088	0.8%	2.8×	1,689	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	1,040	0.8%	2.0×	3,681	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Doncaster	Manningham - West	Victoria	1,017	0.7%	3.4×	4,261	+3,655	12	2.5 km	67
Eastwood	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	971	0.7%	4.1×	4,912	+578	19	0.8 km	55
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	961	0.7%	2.5×	1,556	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Chippendale	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	954	0.7%	3.4×	1,531	+448	17	0.7 km	49
Glen Waverley - East	Monash	Victoria	926	0.7%	3.6×	3,738	-82	23	1.1 km	37
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	897	0.7%	1.6×	2,451	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Auburn - Central	Auburn	New South Wales	891	0.7%	1.7×	2,799	+1,180	39	1.1 km	60
Rhodes	Canada Bay	New South Wales	878	0.6%	2.8×	3,170	+219	26	3.1 km	52
Balwyn North	Boroondara	Victoria	874	0.6%	4.7×	3,066	+341	13	1.2 km	54
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	851	0.6%	1.6×	2,006	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Box Hill North	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	801	0.6%	4.2×	2,841	+642	15	2.0 km	57
Wolli Creek	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	771	0.6%	2.1×	2,162	+2,964	26	3.0 km	65
Balwyn	Boroondara	Victoria	766	0.6%	5.1×	2,751	-255	13	1.9 km	37
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	746	0.5%	2.0×	1,881	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Hurstville - Central	Hurstville	New South Wales	742	0.5%	2.0×	3,678	+1,941	31	1.0 km	61
Gordon - Killara	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	730	0.5%	3.4×	3,448	+725	8	3.7 km	64
Epping (NSW) - West	Pennant Hills - Epping	New South Wales	727	0.5%	2.6×	3,768	+926	19	0.8 km	58
Sunnybank Hills	Sunnybank	Queensland	693	0.5%	3.5×	2,735	+379	24	2.2 km	52
Sandy Bay	Hobart Inner	Tasmania	687	0.5%	3.8×	1,263	-263	5	2.6 km	38
Campsie - North	Canterbury	New South Wales	684	0.5%	2.8×	2,913	-145	39	0.8 km	34
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	678	0.5%	1.8×	1,037	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	676	0.5%	1.6×	1,590	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Ultimo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	625	0.5%	2.4×	1,247	+1,127	16	0.1 km	57
Burwood (Vic.)	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	616	0.5%	2.8×	1,725	+1,403	18	0.8 km	60
Calamvale - Stretton	Rocklea - Acacia Ridge	Queensland	616	0.5%	2.9×	3,125	+1,874	25	2.7 km	61
South Hurstville - Blakehurst	Hurstville	New South Wales	606	0.4%	1.9×	4,214	+1,269	28	1.9 km	60
Kingsford	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	603	0.4%	2.4×	1,135	+694	10	0.3 km	54

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.