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 Afghanistan live

Clear ↺

Arrived 2016–21

13,055

suburbs they live in

186

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.5 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

0.7% 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	782	6.0%	20.1×	2,238	-414	31	0.8 km	42
Enfield - Blair Athol	Port Adelaide - East	South Australia	485	3.7%	13.5×	1,726	+2,655	13	1.1 km	65
Narre Warren South - West	Casey - South	Victoria	410	3.1%	32.6×	1,604	-450	27	1.9 km	29
Doveton	Casey - North	Victoria	362	2.8%	25.5×	1,395	+383	27	1.2 km	55
Hampton Park - East	Casey - South	Victoria	336	2.6%	27.0×	1,019	-116	28	1.1 km	32
Hampton Park - West	Casey - South	Victoria	335	2.6%	22.5×	934	-349	28	0.4 km	32
Merrylands - Holroyd	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	319	2.4%	10.8×	1,291	+1,937	41	1.4 km	62
Dandenong - South	Dandenong	Victoria	319	2.4%	27.2×	1,226	0	29	1.1 km	36
Hallam	Casey - North	Victoria	276	2.1%	28.6×	1,178	-13	28	1.3 km	35
Cranbourne East - North	Casey - South	Victoria	226	1.7%	10.9×	869	+2,260	18	1.1 km	64
Salisbury	Salisbury	South Australia	220	1.7%	12.4×	615	+478	9	1.5 km	56
Cranbourne West	Casey - South	Victoria	216	1.7%	13.9×	749	+5,055	16	0.3 km	67
Guildford West - Merrylands West	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	201	1.5%	11.3×	1,076	+1,525	41	1.8 km	62
Cranbourne North - West	Casey - South	Victoria	195	1.5%	22.2×	575	-133	25	1.1 km	32
Guildford - South Granville	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	192	1.5%	12.3×	791	+814	42	2.6 km	58
Dandenong North	Dandenong	Victoria	188	1.4%	11.5×	806	-726	33	0.8 km	36
Parafield Gardens	Salisbury	South Australia	184	1.4%	12.4×	655	+213	10	2.2 km	55
Cranbourne North - East	Casey - South	Victoria	178	1.4%	14.6×	787	+1,639	19	2.6 km	64
Narre Warren South - East	Casey - South	Victoria	167	1.3%	31.4×	702	-615	23	0.5 km	28
Lynbrook - Lyndhurst	Casey - South	Victoria	166	1.3%	10.2×	694	+1,748	26	1.9 km	60
Cranbourne	Casey - South	Victoria	161	1.2%	11.6×	620	+952	21	0.6 km	59
Auburn - Central	Auburn	New South Wales	157	1.2%	3.2×	780	+1,180	39	1.1 km	60
Maddington - Orange Grove - Martin	Gosnells	Western Australia	156	1.2%	14.1×	537	+2,264	4	1.9 km	65
Granville - Clyde	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	153	1.2%	3.5×	606	+1,600	42	0.9 km	62
Shepparton - South East	Shepparton	Victoria	152	1.2%	10.9×	587	-109	1	5.5 km	43
Narre Warren - South West	Casey - North	Victoria	150	1.1%	13.4×	609	+306	26	0.4 km	52
Paralowie	Salisbury	South Australia	137	1.0%	16.3×	567	+881	8	4.0 km	56
Chester Hill - Sefton	Merrylands - Guildford	New South Wales	136	1.0%	10.7×	357	+1,180	41	1.9 km	58
Marsden	Browns Plains	Queensland	134	1.0%	11.0×	368	+1,245	19	1.8 km	58
Clyde North - South	Casey - South	Victoria	133	1.0%	7.7×	438	+16,550	16	1.5 km	81
Gosnells	Gosnells	Western Australia	111	0.8%	10.6×	469	+2,352	4	3.1 km	67
Elizabeth East	Playford	South Australia	110	0.8%	21.3×	425	+644	3	4.6 km	57
Para Hills	Salisbury	South Australia	109	0.8%	15.5×	364	+448	11	2.3 km	56
Cranbourne East - South	Casey - South	Victoria	105	0.8%	9.3×	319	+5,354	12	2.8 km	70
Corio - Lovely Banks	Geelong	Victoria	104	0.8%	10.5×	306	-108	1	1.2 km	46
Endeavour Hills - North	Casey - North	Victoria	101	0.8%	17.0×	423	-432	24	3.7 km	31
Loganlea	Loganlea - Carbrook	Queensland	95	0.7%	9.2×	291	+1,202	18	1.5 km	59
Narre Warren - North East	Casey - North	Victoria	94	0.7%	17.9×	436	-405	22	2.1 km	34
Salisbury East	Salisbury	South Australia	94	0.7%	15.7×	315	+859	9	0.6 km	57
Endeavour Hills - South	Casey - North	Victoria	91	0.7%	14.3×	461	-425	27	1.9 km	29

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.