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 Nepal live

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Arrived 2016–21

70,146

suburbs they live in

770

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

4.0 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

987

1.5% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Strathfield - East	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	3,128	4.5%	10.3×	3,550	+693	38	2.5 km	59
Auburn - Central	Auburn	New South Wales	2,041	2.9%	7.7×	2,557	+1,180	39	1.1 km	60
Auburn - North	Auburn	New South Wales	1,974	2.8%	9.3×	2,421	-111	43	0.6 km	35
Hurstville - Central	Hurstville	New South Wales	1,960	2.8%	10.3×	2,442	+1,941	31	1.0 km	61
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	1,772	2.5%	7.6×	2,533	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
South Hurstville - Blakehurst	Hurstville	New South Wales	1,664	2.4%	10.1×	2,094	+1,269	28	1.9 km	60
Rockdale - Banksia	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	1,621	2.3%	8.6×	2,555	+1,592	27	4.4 km	66
Burwood (NSW)	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	1,185	1.7%	4.5×	1,399	+2,811	39	2.1 km	65
Lidcombe	Auburn	New South Wales	1,179	1.7%	6.2×	1,482	+2,565	47	0.7 km	66
Homebush	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	1,167	1.7%	3.8×	1,731	+3,049	38	2.7 km	67
Bexley - South	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	820	1.2%	8.7×	1,182	-587	30	2.9 km	39
Campsie - North	Canterbury	New South Wales	816	1.2%	6.5×	1,142	-145	39	0.8 km	34
Campsie - South	Canterbury	New South Wales	816	1.2%	7.6×	1,162	-171	37	1.6 km	33
Parramatta - North	Parramatta	New South Wales	794	1.1%	2.7×	906	+2,522	38	0.4 km	64
Plympton	West Torrens	South Australia	790	1.1%	4.4×	1,007	+2,234	5	3.5 km	65
Ashfield - North	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	778	1.1%	8.7×	1,078	-377	36	2.0 km	37
Glenroy - West	Moreland - North	Victoria	760	1.1%	8.9×	1,004	+441	20	0.7 km	54
Kogarah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	688	1.0%	5.7×	1,096	+2,292	25	3.9 km	63
Kogarah Bay - Carlton - Allawah	Kogarah - Rockdale	New South Wales	645	0.9%	8.0×	972	+489	27	2.7 km	56
Penshurst	Hurstville	New South Wales	605	0.9%	10.5×	1,048	+131	29	1.2 km	44
Parramatta - South	Parramatta	New South Wales	599	0.9%	3.2×	711	+29	40	0.6 km	46
Hornsby - East	Hornsby	New South Wales	585	0.8%	5.3×	887	+75	4	0.7 km	52
Glenroy - East	Moreland - North	Victoria	519	0.7%	5.7×	797	+117	17	1.3 km	52
Dee Why - North	Warringah	New South Wales	480	0.7%	3.4×	680	+1,087	5	0.3 km	57
Glenorchy	Hobart - North West	Tasmania	456	0.7%	6.7×	921	+74	3	2.2 km	49
Broadmeadows	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	431	0.6%	3.6×	667	-31	17	2.6 km	42
Belconnen	Belconnen	Australian Capital Territory	373	0.5%	3.4×	482	+1,174	8	1.8 km	61
Edwardstown	Marion	South Australia	369	0.5%	4.9×	520	+906	4	1.1 km	58
Hurstville - North	Hurstville	New South Wales	364	0.5%	5.7×	504	-298	31	1.0 km	28
Merrylands - Holroyd	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	359	0.5%	2.3×	584	+1,937	41	1.4 km	62
Ashfield - South	Strathfield - Burwood - Ashfield	New South Wales	330	0.5%	4.3×	453	+514	35	1.3 km	55
Nundah	Nundah	Queensland	328	0.5%	5.5×	419	+1,104	14	4.3 km	60
Darwin City	Darwin City	Northern Territory	322	0.5%	4.0×	504	+640	1	0.3 km	61
Northmead	Parramatta	New South Wales	299	0.4%	1.5×	476	-106	34	0.9 km	36
Mortdale - Oatley	Hurstville	New South Wales	295	0.4%	7.5×	458	+31	26	2.1 km	42
Sunshine	Brimbank	Victoria	288	0.4%	4.2×	354	-247	23	0.3 km	39
Darling Heights	Toowoomba	Queensland	286	0.4%	3.0×	430	+1,202	6	1.0 km	64
Gungahlin	Gungahlin	Australian Capital Territory	286	0.4%	3.4×	418	+1,664	6	3.5 km	65
Clayfield	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	280	0.4%	6.5×	321	+554	17	2.7 km	53
Rosehill - Harris Park	Parramatta	New South Wales	278	0.4%	1.7×	343	-33	38	0.9 km	39

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.