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 Pakistan live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

30,544

suburbs they live in

626

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.6 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

270

1.0% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Fawkner	Moreland - North	Victoria	417	1.4%	12.3×	1,102	-17	19	3.2 km	39
Dandenong - North	Dandenong	Victoria	394	1.3%	4.3×	837	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Mount Druitt - Whalan	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	370	1.2%	7.3×	1,166	+469	19	0.8 km	55
Merrylands - Holroyd	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	362	1.2%	5.2×	777	+1,937	41	1.4 km	62
Lakemba	Canterbury	New South Wales	336	1.1%	5.1×	909	-444	32	0.4 km	36
Broadmeadows	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	328	1.1%	6.3×	590	-31	17	2.6 km	42
Bentley - Wilson - St James	Canning	Western Australia	277	0.9%	3.3×	393	+2,924	14	2.9 km	68
Auburn - Central	Auburn	New South Wales	274	0.9%	2.4×	749	+1,180	39	1.1 km	60
Guildford - South Granville	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	266	0.9%	7.3×	608	+814	42	2.6 km	58
Punchbowl	Canterbury	New South Wales	259	0.8%	6.7×	575	+168	30	0.4 km	51
Enfield - Blair Athol	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	247	0.8%	3.0×	514	+2,655	13	1.1 km	65
Bankstown - South	Bankstown	New South Wales	238	0.8%	4.8×	529	+1,310	35	0.7 km	63
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	237	0.8%	2.5×	552	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Carlingford - West	Carlingford	New South Wales	237	0.8%	5.0×	385	+1,526	28	2.1 km	62
Glenroy - East	Moreland - North	Victoria	234	0.8%	5.9×	531	+117	17	1.3 km	52
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	231	0.8%	2.3×	543	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
Wiley Park	Canterbury	New South Wales	226	0.7%	6.2×	559	-252	31	0.5 km	38
Truganina - South West	Wyndham	Victoria	220	0.7%	3.2×	599	+916	21	1.6 km	56
Rooty Hill - Minchinbury	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	198	0.6%	6.0×	657	+302	26	0.6 km	54
Guildford West - Merrylands West	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	198	0.6%	4.8×	472	+1,525	41	1.8 km	62
Bankstown - North	Bankstown	New South Wales	197	0.6%	4.1×	587	+900	37	0.1 km	61
Liverpool - East	Liverpool	New South Wales	191	0.6%	2.7×	418	+3,683	23	1.7 km	66
Mickleham - Yuroke	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	185	0.6%	2.9×	500	+21,192	3	7.5 km	86
Point Cook - South	Wyndham	Victoria	180	0.6%	2.3×	386	+1,443	17	1.7 km	64
Campbellfield - Coolaroo	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	176	0.6%	5.6×	396	-757	18	2.1 km	36
Auburn - North	Auburn	New South Wales	163	0.5%	1.8×	432	-111	43	0.6 km	35
North Parramatta	Parramatta	New South Wales	159	0.5%	1.6×	317	-578	34	1.0 km	40
Cannington - Queens Park	Canning	Western Australia	158	0.5%	1.7×	353	+3,890	11	3.6 km	71
Nollamara - Westminster	Stirling	Western Australia	149	0.5%	2.6×	267	+2,880	15	1.3 km	68
Doveton	Casey - North	Victoria	147	0.5%	4.4×	379	+383	27	1.2 km	55
Tarneit - Central	Wyndham	Victoria	147	0.5%	1.3×	510	+1,442	19	1.6 km	58
Dandenong - South	Dandenong	Victoria	142	0.5%	5.2×	379	0	29	1.1 km	36
Point Cook - East	Wyndham	Victoria	141	0.5%	2.1×	268	+3,502	13	1.5 km	61
Hassall Grove - Plumpton	Mount Druitt	New South Wales	134	0.4%	5.4×	685	-327	21	0.2 km	33
Narre Warren South - West	Casey - South	Victoria	134	0.4%	4.5×	299	-450	27	1.9 km	29
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	130	0.4%	1.9×	459	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Macquarie Park - Marsfield	Ryde - Hunters Hill	New South Wales	129	0.4%	1.1×	206	+4,063	15	2.0 km	70
Tarneit (West) - Mount Cottrell	Wyndham	Victoria	125	0.4%	2.5×	439	+11,749	16	0.5 km	78
Hampton Park - West	Casey - South	Victoria	119	0.4%	3.4×	275	-349	28	0.4 km	32
Meadow Heights	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	117	0.4%	4.0×	343	-953	15	4.6 km	38

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.