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 United States of America live

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Arrived 2016–21

20,124

suburbs they live in

594

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

365

2.2% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	274	1.4%	6.2×	617	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Mount Johns	Alice Springs	Northern Territory	249	1.2%	21.8×	316	+735	1	2.6 km	57
Bondi Beach - North Bondi	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	190	0.9%	4.1×	462	-330	7	6.1 km	38
Coogee - Clovelly	Eastern Suburbs - South	New South Wales	163	0.8%	4.6×	375	-365	10	2.9 km	34
Bondi - Tamarama - Bronte	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	157	0.8%	4.2×	394	+328	7	4.6 km	53
Surry Hills	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	134	0.7%	3.7×	330	-224	13	1.4 km	36
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	112	0.6%	3.9×	345	-2,361	13	2.5 km	33
Freshwater - Brookvale	Warringah	New South Wales	105	0.5%	4.7×	304	+710	4	2.5 km	54
Erskineville - Alexandria	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	101	0.5%	3.6×	299	+2,045	19	0.8 km	63
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	89	0.4%	3.8×	302	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Paddington - Moore Park	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	88	0.4%	5.7×	285	-376	12	2.9 km	36
Balmain	Leichhardt	New South Wales	87	0.4%	8.5×	259	-425	19	2.9 km	28
Nedlands - Dalkeith - Crawley	Cottesloe - Claremont	Western Australia	84	0.4%	2.7×	240	+2,249	9	6.2 km	66
St Lucia	Sherwood - Indooroopilly	Queensland	82	0.4%	2.1×	188	+1,341	22	2.4 km	52
Kellyville - West	Baulkham Hills	New South Wales	81	0.4%	4.8×	94	+4,404	24	2.3 km	72
Balgowlah - Clontarf - Seaforth	Manly	New South Wales	81	0.4%	6.3×	307	-267	3	5.4 km	39
Mosman - South	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	80	0.4%	5.8×	277	-531	9	6.4 km	35
Glebe - Forest Lodge	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	79	0.4%	2.3×	275	+235	19	0.6 km	51
Carlton	Melbourne City	Victoria	79	0.4%	1.0×	174	+2,729	16	0.9 km	62
South Brisbane	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	78	0.4%	1.4×	134	+4,871	23	0.5 km	71
East Side	Alice Springs	Northern Territory	78	0.4%	12.3×	111	+710	1	0.7 km	57
Baulkham Hills (West) - Bella Vista	Baulkham Hills	New South Wales	76	0.4%	3.8×	159	+1,515	33	3.3 km	61
Newstead - Bowen Hills	Brisbane Inner - North	Queensland	75	0.4%	2.4×	205	+4,566	19	1.3 km	68
Perth (West) - Northbridge	Perth City	Western Australia	74	0.4%	1.6×	141	+3,817	12	1.3 km	69
Sydney (South) - Haymarket	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	73	0.4%	0.6×	121	+1,934	16	0.7 km	63
Brighton (Vic.)	Bayside	Victoria	73	0.4%	4.2×	241	-417	5	3.1 km	39
Caulfield - North	Glen Eira	Victoria	72	0.4%	2.3×	382	+1,226	12	4.7 km	62
Larapinta	Alice Springs	Northern Territory	70	0.3%	12.8×	125	+516	1	4.6 km	57
Darlinghurst	Sydney Inner City	New South Wales	69	0.3%	3.6×	210	-469	13	1.9 km	31
Prahran - Windsor	Stonnington - West	Victoria	69	0.3%	2.6×	208	-315	12	3.9 km	41
Richmond - North	Yarra	Victoria	69	0.3%	3.7×	131	+117	12	0.4 km	53
West End	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	68	0.3%	2.3×	178	+3,804	22	0.9 km	68
Bellevue Hill	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	67	0.3%	4.6×	241	-269	10	5.3 km	36
Albert Park	Port Phillip	Victoria	67	0.3%	2.8×	172	+13	9	1.9 km	45
Petersham - Stanmore	Marrickville - Sydenham - Petersham	New South Wales	66	0.3%	5.0×	201	-365	24	0.8 km	34
Crows Nest - Waverton	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	66	0.3%	2.8×	238	+12	14	5.3 km	50
Mosman - North	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	66	0.3%	4.0×	219	-205	7	5.8 km	35
Lindfield - Roseville	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	65	0.3%	2.6×	306	+396	7	2.1 km	61
Brisbane City	Brisbane Inner	Queensland	65	0.3%	1.2×	128	+3,791	20	1.6 km	70
Bondi Junction - Waverly	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	64	0.3%	1.7×	228	+569	10	4.0 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.