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 Sri Lanka live

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Arrived 2016–21

24,011

suburbs they live in

548

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

3.1 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

201

0.9% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Dandenong - North	Dandenong	Victoria	411	1.7%	5.7×	1,389	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Dandenong North	Dandenong	Victoria	319	1.3%	10.6×	1,445	-726	33	0.8 km	36
Clayton (North) - Notting Hill	Monash	Victoria	313	1.3%	4.7×	518	+2,344	21	1.7 km	63
Glen Waverley - West	Monash	Victoria	274	1.1%	4.4×	1,226	+1,772	22	0.8 km	62
Noble Park - East	Dandenong	Victoria	257	1.1%	6.4×	685	+44	30	0.5 km	48
Clyde North - South	Casey - South	Victoria	241	1.0%	7.5×	1,075	+16,550	16	1.5 km	81
Mount Waverley - South	Monash	Victoria	223	0.9%	6.7×	833	+435	18	1.8 km	56
Glen Waverley - East	Monash	Victoria	206	0.9%	4.5×	1,050	-82	23	1.1 km	37
Ashwood - Chadstone	Monash	Victoria	203	0.8%	6.6×	598	+616	18	2.2 km	59
Beaconsfield - Officer	Cardinia	Victoria	196	0.8%	8.7×	960	+8,047	12	2.0 km	75
Burwood (Vic.)	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	189	0.8%	4.8×	414	+1,403	18	0.8 km	60
Clyde North - North	Casey - South	Victoria	189	0.8%	10.2×	1,110	+5,607	21	1.6 km	72
Clayton - Central	Monash	Victoria	180	0.8%	2.4×	388	+1,143	22	0.3 km	60
Mount Waverley - North	Monash	Victoria	179	0.7%	5.5×	652	+681	19	1.6 km	57
Narre Warren - South West	Casey - North	Victoria	166	0.7%	8.1×	681	+306	26	0.4 km	52
Noble Park - West	Dandenong	Victoria	165	0.7%	2.9×	572	-15	26	0.5 km	38
Burwood East	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	162	0.7%	7.2×	409	+1,349	21	2.0 km	60
Mulgrave	Monash	Victoria	159	0.7%	6.8×	999	+254	29	0.6 km	54
Hampton Park - East	Casey - South	Victoria	156	0.7%	6.8×	667	-116	28	1.1 km	32
Doveton	Casey - North	Victoria	155	0.6%	5.9×	567	+383	27	1.2 km	55
Hampton Park - West	Casey - South	Victoria	154	0.6%	5.6×	583	-349	28	0.4 km	32
Pendle Hill - Girraween	Parramatta	New South Wales	135	0.6%	3.5×	1,349	+239	42	1.0 km	49
Lynbrook - Lyndhurst	Casey - South	Victoria	132	0.6%	4.4×	1,012	+1,748	26	1.9 km	60
Springvale	Dandenong	Victoria	132	0.6%	1.9×	344	+249	26	2.4 km	58
Windsor Gardens	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	131	0.5%	2.6×	296	+1,539	13	2.1 km	63
Cranbourne North - East	Casey - South	Victoria	129	0.5%	5.8×	1,033	+1,639	19	2.6 km	64
Berwick - South East	Casey - North	Victoria	126	0.5%	6.9×	947	+2,097	19	1.6 km	65
Narre Warren South - West	Casey - South	Victoria	126	0.5%	5.4×	693	-450	27	1.9 km	29
Box Hill	Whitehorse - West	Victoria	123	0.5%	1.4×	249	+3,145	14	3.3 km	68
Cranbourne East - North	Casey - South	Victoria	121	0.5%	3.2×	816	+2,260	18	1.1 km	64
Craigieburn - South	Tullamarine - Broadmeadows	Victoria	120	0.5%	2.4×	684	+3,329	7	1.7 km	68
Oakleigh - Huntingdale	Monash	Victoria	114	0.5%	2.6×	423	+1,448	19	2.2 km	63
Clayton South	Dandenong	Victoria	104	0.4%	2.1×	371	+989	24	1.1 km	58
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	102	0.4%	1.4×	413	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Wentworthville - Westmead	Parramatta	New South Wales	100	0.4%	0.9×	945	+3,277	39	0.9 km	64
Wollert	Whittlesea - Wallan	Victoria	99	0.4%	1.9×	580	+16,182	18	1.4 km	81
Berwick - South West	Casey - North	Victoria	97	0.4%	6.4×	648	+1,828	22	1.4 km	61
Campbelltown - Woodbine	Campbelltown (NSW)	New South Wales	96	0.4%	3.9×	210	+3,498	14	0.0 km	64
Pakenham - South East	Cardinia	Victoria	95	0.4%	9.9×	174	+878	3	3.3 km	62
Kingsbury	Darebin - North	Victoria	92	0.4%	3.7×	273	+662	17	2.1 km	57

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.