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 Taiwan live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

11,669

suburbs they live in

310

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

4.2 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

453

4.9% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Gatton	Toowoomba	Queensland	249	2.1%	23.5×	301	+780	1	1.2 km	61
Sunnybank	Sunnybank	Queensland	167	1.4%	12.1×	666	+845	25	1.5 km	51
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	162	1.4%	3.7×	357	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	160	1.4%	2.1×	284	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Sunnybank Hills	Sunnybank	Queensland	157	1.3%	9.3×	1,079	+379	24	2.2 km	52
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	131	1.1%	2.2×	232	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Caboolture - South	Caboolture	Queensland	128	1.1%	21.3×	165	+4,014	8	1.4 km	70
Caboolture - East	Caboolture	Queensland	125	1.1%	23.7×	161	+1,653	8	2.1 km	65
Colac	Colac - Corangamite	Victoria	122	1.0%	30.5×	134	-113	1	2.1 km	41
Calamvale - Stretton	Rocklea - Acacia Ridge	Queensland	121	1.0%	6.7×	1,043	+1,874	25	2.7 km	61
Eight Mile Plains	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	119	1.0%	8.1×	745	+777	22	2.4 km	55
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	114	1.0%	3.4×	275	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	114	1.0%	3.5×	266	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Homebush	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	104	0.9%	2.0×	221	+3,049	38	2.7 km	67
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	102	0.9%	1.5×	269	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	97	0.8%	2.9×	489	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Runcorn	Sunnybank	Queensland	97	0.8%	6.2×	526	+613	24	0.8 km	50
Lidcombe	Auburn	New South Wales	92	0.8%	2.9×	213	+2,565	47	0.7 km	66
Griffith (NSW)	Griffith - Murrumbidgee (West)	New South Wales	89	0.8%	4.8×	120	+277	2	1.8 km	60
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	78	0.7%	1.8×	223	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Melbourne CBD - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	77	0.7%	2.7×	156	+1,063	16	0.9 km	58
Tamworth - East	Tamworth - Gunnedah	New South Wales	72	0.6%	12.9×	97	+1,283	3	1.5 km	63
Warragul	Baw Baw	Victoria	72	0.6%	16.9×	86	+3,567	2	0.1 km	72
Macgregor (Qld)	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	72	0.6%	8.3×	383	+406	23	0.9 km	51
Stawell	Grampians	Victoria	69	0.6%	30.2×	80	+47	1	1.0 km	39
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	67	0.6%	1.8×	166	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	65	0.6%	1.4×	133	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	65	0.6%	1.3×	121	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Rochedale - Burbank	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	64	0.5%	6.2×	352	+3,851	21	4.4 km	68
Pakenham - South West	Cardinia	Victoria	61	0.5%	4.6×	100	+1,199	6	1.8 km	57
Auburn - Central	Auburn	New South Wales	60	0.5%	1.4×	102	+1,180	39	1.1 km	60
Gingin - Dandaragan	Wheat Belt - North	Western Australia	60	0.5%	19.2×	68	+1,502	0	74 km	77
Eastwood	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	57	0.5%	2.8×	233	+578	19	0.8 km	55
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	57	0.5%	1.3×	124	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Bowen	Bowen Basin - North	Queensland	56	0.5%	12.7×	64	+1,380	2	4.0 km	64
Jindabyne - Berridale	Snowy Mountains	New South Wales	55	0.5%	25.7×	71	+984	0	51 km	75
Mareeba	Tablelands (East) - Kuranda	Queensland	55	0.5%	12.5×	79	+765	1	1.7 km	62
Robertson	Nathan	Queensland	55	0.5%	7.1×	400	+328	24	0.8 km	42
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	51	0.4%	1.6×	111	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Upper Mount Gravatt	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	51	0.4%	4.6×	195	+1,221	23	0.7 km	60

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.