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 Canada live

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Arrived 2016–21

6,871

suburbs they live in

211

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

2.8 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

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
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	71	1.0%	4.5×	168	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	67	1.0%	4.5×	208	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	56	0.8%	4.8×	141	+235	19	0.6 km	51
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	54	0.8%	2.8×	87	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
West End	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	51	0.7%	5.0×	120	+3,804	22	0.9 km	68
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	50	0.7%	3.9×	130	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Southport - North	Southport	Queensland	49	0.7%	4.1×	93	+2,839	7	1.5 km	69
Waterloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	43	0.6%	2.3×	88	+1,560	13	0.8 km	63
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	43	0.6%	1.6×	61	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
Southport - South	Southport	Queensland	43	0.6%	4.7×	121	+1,116	6	2.7 km	64
Newstead - Bowen Hills	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	42	0.6%	3.9×	143	+4,566	19	1.3 km	68
Prahran - Windsor	Stonnington - West	Victoria	40	0.6%	4.5×	102	-315	12	3.9 km	41
Freshwater - Brookvale	Warringah	New South Wales	38	0.6%	5.0×	152	+710	4	2.5 km	54
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	37	0.5%	3.8×	129	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	37	0.5%	2.8×	68	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	36	0.5%	2.8×	93	+569	10	4.0 km	57
Mermaid Beach - Broadbeach	Broadbeach - Burleigh	Queensland	36	0.5%	6.0×	101	+2,159	7	3.8 km	70
Chippendale	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	35	0.5%	2.5×	50	+448	17	0.7 km	49
Coogee - Clovelly	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	35	0.5%	2.9×	135	-365	10	2.9 km	34
Maroochydore - Kuluin	Maroochy	Queensland	34	0.5%	5.2×	121	+3,270	6	0.3 km	69
North Sydney - Lavender Bay	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	33	0.5%	3.8×	90	+1,044	16	4.5 km	60
Elwood	Port Phillip	Victoria	33	0.5%	6.6×	94	-322	10	5.8 km	39
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	32	0.5%	2.6×	109	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Erskineville - Alexandria	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	31	0.5%	3.2×	126	+2,045	19	0.8 km	63
Airlie - Whitsundays	Whitsunday	Queensland	31	0.5%	6.3×	60	+1,914	1	6.1 km	70
Wollongong - East	Wollongong	New South Wales	30	0.4%	4.0×	73	+2,102	4	1.1 km	69
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	30	0.4%	1.6×	60	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Varsity Lakes	Robina	Queensland	29	0.4%	4.6×	100	+1,144	6	0.8 km	61
Collingwood	Yarra	Victoria	27	0.4%	5.8×	61	+1,205	13	2.3 km	60
Trinity Beach - Smithfield	Cairns - North	Queensland	27	0.4%	7.9×	98	+3,273	2	2.5 km	69
Newtown (NSW)	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	26	0.4%	4.5×	85	-734	21	1.9 km	30
Cremorne - Cammeray	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	26	0.4%	3.7×	120	-114	11	5.4 km	37
Douglas	Townsville	Queensland	26	0.4%	10.3×	32	+164	3	1.5 km	57
Torquay	Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula	Victoria	25	0.4%	14.1×	93	+4,219	0	11 km	76
Redfern	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	25	0.4%	3.0×	83	+340	13	1.2 km	54
North Melbourne	Melbourne City	Victoria	25	0.4%	1.9×	58	+1,128	14	1.1 km	61
Adelaide	Adelaide City	South Australia	25	0.4%	0.8×	70	+3,638	9	0.7 km	69
Scarborough	Stirling	Western Australia	25	0.4%	4.1×	93	+2,807	9	4.9 km	65
Byron Bay	Richmond Valley - Coastal	New South Wales	24	0.3%	4.2×	75	+560	1	4.7 km	59
South Yarra - North	Stonnington - West	Victoria	24	0.3%	2.2×	56	+1,264	12	2.2 km	61

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.