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 Hong Kong (SAR of China) live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

14,947

suburbs they live in

372

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.4 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

0.1% 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	345	2.3%	5.3×	487	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	208	1.4%	4.9×	1,198	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	183	1.2%	3.2×	945	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Doncaster	Manningham - West	Victoria	159	1.1%	4.8×	892	+3,655	12	2.5 km	67
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	153	1.0%	1.6×	330	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	152	1.0%	3.6×	240	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Gordon - Killara	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	137	0.9%	5.7×	996	+725	8	3.7 km	64
Epping (East) - North Epping	Pennant Hills - Epping	New South Wales	132	0.9%	5.0×	665	+1,925	15	2.4 km	62
Epping (NSW) - West	Pennant Hills - Epping	New South Wales	126	0.8%	4.1×	998	+926	19	0.8 km	58
Doncaster East - North	Manningham - West	Victoria	120	0.8%	8.4×	870	+354	11	2.0 km	55
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	120	0.8%	2.2×	493	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Lindfield - Roseville	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	119	0.8%	6.5×	903	+396	7	2.1 km	61
Glen Waverley - West	Monash	Victoria	118	0.8%	3.0×	561	+1,772	22	0.8 km	62
Doncaster East - South	Manningham - West	Victoria	116	0.8%	5.2×	666	+884	14	0.5 km	58
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	111	0.7%	2.0×	476	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	108	0.7%	1.3×	433	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	107	0.7%	1.4×	267	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Balwyn North	Boroondara	Victoria	107	0.7%	5.2×	491	+341	13	1.2 km	54
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	107	0.7%	2.6×	221	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
St Ives	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	105	0.7%	6.5×	527	+753	4	6.1 km	57
Mascot	Botany	New South Wales	104	0.7%	1.7×	341	+3,582	18	0.4 km	62
Rhodes	Canada Bay	New South Wales	104	0.7%	3.0×	411	+219	26	3.1 km	52
Zetland	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	100	0.7%	2.3×	260	+1,999	12	1.0 km	61
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	98	0.7%	1.7×	215	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	97	0.6%	2.3×	170	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	94	0.6%	1.9×	380	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	93	0.6%	2.3×	208	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Chatswood (West) - Lane Cove North	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	86	0.6%	3.5×	600	+805	11	3.6 km	57
Chippendale	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	85	0.6%	2.8×	195	+448	17	0.7 km	49
Calamvale - Stretton	Rocklea - Acacia Ridge	Queensland	83	0.6%	3.6×	693	+1,874	25	2.7 km	61
Sunnybank Hills	Sunnybank	Queensland	81	0.5%	3.8×	387	+379	24	2.2 km	52
Cherrybrook	Baulkham Hills	New South Wales	80	0.5%	5.2×	593	-602	9	4.1 km	39
Wolli Creek	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	78	0.5%	1.9×	282	+2,964	26	3.0 km	65
Glen Waverley - East	Monash	Victoria	74	0.5%	2.6×	517	-82	23	1.1 km	37
Rochedale - Burbank	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	74	0.5%	5.6×	291	+3,851	21	4.4 km	68
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	73	0.5%	1.2×	229	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Mawson Lakes - Globe Derby Park	Salisbury	South Australia	73	0.5%	3.8×	156	+775	11	2.4 km	61
Indooroopilly	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	72	0.5%	3.0×	187	+1,601	19	1.1 km	60
West Ryde - Meadowbank	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	71	0.5%	2.4×	571	+1,022	20	2.4 km	56
Camperdown - Darlington	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	70	0.5%	5.8×	124	-478	21	1.1 km	31

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.