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 India live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

233,078

suburbs they live in

1,507

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

4.3 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

2,952

1.3% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Wentworthville - Westmead	Parramatta	New South Wales	4,492	1.9%	4.2×	8,052	+3,277	39	0.9 km	64
Parramatta - North	Parramatta	New South Wales	3,201	1.4%	3.3×	4,582	+2,522	38	0.4 km	64
Tarneit - Central	Wyndham	Victoria	3,106	1.3%	3.7×	8,259	+1,442	19	1.6 km	58
Homebush	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	2,230	1.0%	2.2×	3,845	+3,049	38	2.7 km	67
Northmead	Parramatta	New South Wales	2,197	0.9%	3.3×	4,028	-106	34	0.9 km	36
Rosehill - Harris Park	Parramatta	New South Wales	2,023	0.9%	3.7×	3,431	-33	38	0.9 km	39
North Parramatta	Parramatta	New South Wales	1,976	0.8%	2.7×	3,415	-578	34	1.0 km	40
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	1,972	0.8%	2.7×	6,016	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Parramatta - South	Parramatta	New South Wales	1,970	0.8%	3.2×	3,171	+29	40	0.6 km	46
Blacktown (East) - Kings Park	Blacktown	New South Wales	1,734	0.7%	3.3×	3,485	+493	31	1.7 km	56
Truganina - South West	Wyndham	Victoria	1,659	0.7%	3.2×	4,536	+916	21	1.6 km	56
Docklands	Melbourne City	Victoria	1,654	0.7%	1.8×	2,243	+2,038	13	1.6 km	65
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	1,587	0.7%	2.2×	2,301	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Pendle Hill - Girraween	Parramatta	New South Wales	1,538	0.7%	4.1×	4,125	+239	42	1.0 km	49
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	1,512	0.6%	2.1×	2,967	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Enfield - Blair Athol	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	1,502	0.6%	2.4×	2,942	+2,655	13	1.1 km	65
Point Cook - South	Wyndham	Victoria	1,430	0.6%	2.4×	4,255	+1,443	17	1.7 km	64
Quakers Hill	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	1,399	0.6%	3.2×	4,093	+1,367	25	1.0 km	58
Windsor Gardens	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	1,390	0.6%	2.8×	3,106	+1,539	13	2.1 km	63
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	1,339	0.6%	2.6×	4,559	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Melbourne CBD - West	Melbourne City	Victoria	1,333	0.6%	1.1×	1,709	+2,590	13	1.0 km	65
Blacktown (North) - Marayong	Blacktown	New South Wales	1,314	0.6%	3.0×	3,140	+772	31	1.8 km	53
Manor Lakes - Quandong	Wyndham	Victoria	1,152	0.5%	3.7×	3,045	+3,327	11	3.3 km	72
Tarneit (West) - Mount Cottrell	Wyndham	Victoria	1,127	0.5%	3.0×	2,984	+11,749	16	0.5 km	78
Southbank - East	Melbourne City	Victoria	1,094	0.5%	1.2×	1,535	+2,569	12	0.9 km	65
Mickleham - Yuroke	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	1,083	0.5%	2.2×	4,301	+21,192	3	7.5 km	86
Toongabbie - Constitution Hill	Parramatta	New South Wales	1,082	0.5%	3.2×	3,016	+578	36	1.1 km	54
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	1,069	0.5%	1.2×	1,685	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Clayton South	Dandenong	Victoria	1,029	0.4%	2.2×	1,997	+989	24	1.1 km	58
Tarneit - North	Wyndham	Victoria	1,015	0.4%	3.5×	2,881	+9,398	19	2.0 km	77
Truganina - North	Wyndham	Victoria	988	0.4%	3.3×	2,861	+8,175	20	0.2 km	72
Laverton	Wyndham	Victoria	986	0.4%	2.5×	2,068	+1,173	20	1.3 km	58
Dandenong - North	Dandenong	Victoria	960	0.4%	1.4×	2,232	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Toongabbie - West	Blacktown	New South Wales	939	0.4%	3.6×	2,382	+888	38	0.4 km	52
Carnegie	Glen Eira	Victoria	937	0.4%	2.1×	1,703	+1,151	16	2.1 km	60
Plympton	West Torrens	South Australia	934	0.4%	1.6×	1,708	+2,234	5	3.5 km	65
Truganina - South East	Wyndham	Victoria	920	0.4%	3.2×	2,718	+2,411	21	0.9 km	59
Griffith (NSW)	Griffith - Murrumbidgee (West)	New South Wales	914	0.4%	2.5×	1,813	+277	2	1.8 km	60
Blacktown - West	Blacktown	New South Wales	891	0.4%	2.6×	2,155	+457	35	2.8 km	54
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell	Melton - Bacchus Marsh	Victoria	877	0.4%	2.6×	3,280	+20,910	8	0.8 km	82

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.