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 Korea, Republic of (South) live

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Arrived 2016–21

15,565

suburbs they live in

356

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

0.3% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Lidcombe	Auburn	New South Wales	568	3.6%	13.5×	3,047	+2,565	47	0.7 km	66
Wentworth Point - Sydney Olympic Park	Auburn	New South Wales	355	2.3%	7.0×	2,010	+7,117	29	2.2 km	72
Strathfield - East	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	300	1.9%	4.5×	1,319	+693	38	2.5 km	59
Chatswood - East	Chatswood - Lane Cove	New South Wales	251	1.6%	5.7×	940	+898	8	1.7 km	57
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	238	1.5%	2.7×	631	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Rhodes	Canada Bay	New South Wales	226	1.5%	6.3×	1,091	+219	26	3.1 km	52
Homebush	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	226	1.5%	3.3×	1,103	+3,049	38	2.7 km	67
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	225	1.4%	5.2×	519	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Southport - North	Southport	Queensland	198	1.3%	7.3×	482	+2,839	7	1.5 km	69
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	194	1.2%	2.4×	465	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
West Ryde - Meadowbank	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	187	1.2%	6.2×	1,252	+1,022	20	2.4 km	56
Melbourne CBD - North	Melbourne City	Victoria	184	1.2%	1.8×	454	+5,030	16	0.3 km	68
Epping (NSW) - West	Pennant Hills - Epping	New South Wales	153	1.0%	4.8×	1,407	+926	19	0.8 km	58
Eastwood	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	153	1.0%	5.7×	1,271	+578	19	0.8 km	55
Eight Mile Plains	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	150	1.0%	7.6×	727	+777	22	2.4 km	55
Runcorn	Sunnybank	Queensland	149	1.0%	7.2×	641	+613	24	0.8 km	50
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	147	0.9%	2.5×	765	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Epping (East) - North Epping	Pennant Hills - Epping	New South Wales	125	0.8%	4.5×	809	+1,925	15	2.4 km	62
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	123	0.8%	2.8×	359	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
Southport - South	Southport	Queensland	117	0.8%	5.7×	388	+1,116	6	2.7 km	64
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	116	0.7%	1.9×	311	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	109	0.7%	1.6×	295	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	103	0.7%	1.6×	332	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Ermington - Rydalmere	Carlingford	New South Wales	95	0.6%	5.2×	1,472	+2,457	26	1.4 km	66
Ryde - South	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	91	0.6%	4.0×	565	+2,298	23	3.0 km	59
Gordon - Killara	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	85	0.5%	3.4×	719	+725	8	3.7 km	64
Calamvale - Stretton	Rocklea - Acacia Ridge	Queensland	85	0.5%	3.5×	559	+1,874	25	2.7 km	61
Silverwater - Newington	Auburn	New South Wales	84	0.5%	15.3×	924	-894	37	1.4 km	28
Oatlands - Dundas Valley	Carlingford	New South Wales	84	0.5%	6.4×	1,123	+99	29	0.9 km	53
Ryde - North	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	84	0.5%	4.0×	442	+223	19	2.7 km	54
Lindfield - Roseville	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	83	0.5%	4.4×	450	+396	7	2.1 km	61
Woolloongabba	Holland Park - Yeronga	Queensland	74	0.5%	3.9×	173	+2,279	22	0.8 km	64
Upper Mount Gravatt	Mt Gravatt	Queensland	73	0.5%	4.9×	308	+1,221	23	0.7 km	60
West Melbourne - Residential	Melbourne City	Victoria	71	0.5%	3.0×	181	+2,145	14	0.8 km	62
Ultimo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	70	0.5%	2.3×	124	+1,127	16	0.1 km	57
Concord West - North Strathfield	Canada Bay	New South Wales	69	0.4%	5.6×	598	-307	35	1.4 km	40
Caboolture - South	Caboolture	Queensland	69	0.4%	8.6×	96	+4,014	8	1.4 km	70
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	67	0.4%	1.1×	153	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Sunnybank	Sunnybank	Queensland	66	0.4%	3.6×	262	+845	25	1.5 km	51
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	66	0.4%	1.8×	184	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69

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.