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 Bangladesh live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

10,749

suburbs they live in

275

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.3 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

101

1.1% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Lakemba	Canterbury	New South Wales	710	6.6%	30.7×	2,563	-444	32	0.4 km	36
Wiley Park	Canterbury	New South Wales	315	2.9%	24.5×	1,239	-252	31	0.5 km	38
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	213	2.0%	5.2×	286	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Rockdale - Banksia	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	178	1.7%	6.2×	587	+1,592	27	4.4 km	66
Macquarie Fields	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	146	1.4%	23.6×	981	+50	14	2.8 km	43
Bankstown - North	Bankstown	New South Wales	144	1.3%	8.4×	686	+900	37	0.1 km	61
Minto - St Andrews	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	138	1.3%	16.9×	1,316	-19	15	0.2 km	33
Bankstown - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	137	1.3%	7.8×	407	+1,310	35	0.7 km	63
Punchbowl	Canterbury	New South Wales	133	1.2%	9.7×	623	+168	30	0.4 km	51
Eastlakes	Botany	New South Wales	131	1.2%	22.6×	438	-1,044	12	1.7 km	34
Ingleburn	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	110	1.0%	13.0×	939	+57	20	1.2 km	49
Bexley - South	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	107	1.0%	7.4×	506	-587	30	2.9 km	39
Mount Druitt - Whalan	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	100	0.9%	5.6×	481	+469	19	0.8 km	55
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	97	0.9%	3.2×	123	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Truganina - South West	Wyndham	Victoria	75	0.7%	3.1×	433	+916	21	1.6 km	56
Liverpool - East	Liverpool	New South Wales	72	0.7%	2.9×	250	+3,683	23	1.7 km	66
Campbelltown - Woodbine	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	70	0.7%	6.4×	394	+3,498	14	0.0 km	64
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	70	0.7%	2.1×	101	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	70	0.7%	3.4×	137	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Denham Court - Bardia	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	67	0.6%	7.3×	534	+11,471	20	2.7 km	65
Tarneit - Central	Wyndham	Victoria	66	0.6%	1.7×	290	+1,442	19	1.6 km	58
Belmore - Belfield	Canterbury	New South Wales	63	0.6%	6.2×	259	+430	32	1.3 km	54
Enfield - Blair Athol	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	62	0.6%	2.1×	173	+2,655	13	1.1 km	65
Eastwood	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	61	0.6%	3.3×	82	+578	19	0.8 km	55
Footscray	Maribyrnong	Victoria	61	0.6%	3.6×	145	+2,553	21	1.5 km	68
Kogarah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	56	0.5%	3.0×	221	+2,292	25	3.9 km	63
North Parramatta	Parramatta	New South Wales	56	0.5%	1.6×	201	-578	34	1.0 km	40
Armidale	Armidale	New South Wales	55	0.5%	3.8×	101	-14	2	0.4 km	39
Leumeah - Minto Heights	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	54	0.5%	12.5×	284	+257	11	1.7 km	50
Blacktown (East) - Kings Park	Blacktown	New South Wales	53	0.5%	2.2×	191	+493	31	1.7 km	56
West Ryde - Meadowbank	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	53	0.5%	2.5×	96	+1,022	20	2.4 km	56
Shortland - Jesmond	Newcastle	New South Wales	52	0.5%	4.3×	73	+1,479	9	1.4 km	61
Murdoch - Kardinya	Melville	Western Australia	52	0.5%	7.6×	68	+1,323	7	2.6 km	60
Kelvin Grove - Herston	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	50	0.5%	3.1×	72	+1,052	17	1.3 km	57
Glenfield	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	49	0.5%	8.6×	462	+259	17	3.8 km	56
Victoria Park - Lathlain - Burswood	Belmont - Victoria Park	Western Australia	49	0.5%	3.1×	57	+2,535	11	0.1 km	65
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	48	0.4%	1.6×	60	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Brinkin - Nakara	Darwin Suburbs	Northern Territory	48	0.4%	9.7×	67	-193	0	10 km	40
Kingsbury	Darebin - North	Victoria	45	0.4%	4.0×	62	+662	17	2.1 km	57
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	44	0.4%	1.3×	238	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81

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.