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 South Africa live

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Arrived 2016–21

26,582

suburbs they live in

797

where the group is large enough to count

Average distance to a ACC church

5.1 km

Living with no ACC church within 10 km

870

3.8% of the group

suburb	SA3 corridor	State	People	Share of group	Concentration	Community total	suburb growth 5 yr	Churches ≤10 km	Nearest	Plant score
Mindarie - Quinns Rocks - Jindalee	Wanneroo	Western Australia	244	0.9%	13.1×	1,334	+3,222	3	1.6 km	70
North Lakes	North Lakes	Queensland	198	0.7%	7.5×	822	+1,091	11	2.1 km	57
Point Cook - East	Wyndham	Victoria	187	0.7%	3.2×	458	+3,502	13	1.5 km	61
St Ives	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	157	0.6%	5.4×	1,565	+753	4	6.1 km	57
Rouse Hill - Beaumont Hills	Rouse Hill - McGraths Hill	New South Wales	149	0.6%	6.7×	483	+1,065	16	1.3 km	61
Cherrybrook	Baulkham Hills	New South Wales	146	0.5%	5.4×	480	-602	9	4.1 km	39
Iluka - Burns Beach	Joondalup	Western Australia	132	0.5%	13.0×	820	+1,319	3	4.0 km	60
Alkimos - Eglinton	Wanneroo	Western Australia	129	0.5%	7.7×	669	+7,618	3	2.6 km	82
Kellyville - East	Baulkham Hills	New South Wales	116	0.4%	6.2×	433	-337	18	2.2 km	31
Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	112	0.4%	3.9×	321	+432	21	2.8 km	50
Mount Barker	Adelaide Hills	South Australia	112	0.4%	12.4×	271	+5,633	2	1.7 km	77
North Kellyville	Rouse Hill - McGraths Hill	New South Wales	107	0.4%	3.4×	354	+9,035	12	1.5 km	73
Wakerley	Wynnum - Manly	Queensland	107	0.4%	14.1×	416	+230	7	2.6 km	46
Butler - Merriwa - Ridgewood	Wanneroo	Western Australia	107	0.4%	6.5×	800	+1,343	3	2.8 km	63
Manly - Fairlight	Manly	New South Wales	104	0.4%	1.8×	413	+625	3	5.0 km	53
Karrinyup - Gwelup - Carine	Stirling	Western Australia	102	0.4%	7.9×	552	+1,856	12	3.6 km	66
Turramurra	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	99	0.4%	5.5×	543	+375	6	4.5 km	53
Mountain Creek	Buderim	Queensland	98	0.4%	8.2×	260	+203	6	3.4 km	42
Springfield Lakes	Springfield - Redbank	Queensland	95	0.4%	2.7×	305	+7,257	12	2.9 km	76
Wahroonga (East) - Warrawee	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	92	0.3%	5.0×	530	-227	5	3.2 km	36
Thornlands	Cleveland - Stradbroke	Queensland	92	0.3%	8.4×	487	+3,626	3	1.3 km	63
Buderim - South	Buderim	Queensland	92	0.3%	6.5×	358	+646	6	2.8 km	58
Dover Heights	Eastern Suburbs - North	New South Wales	91	0.3%	7.9×	1,411	-111	4	7.5 km	36
Currambine - Kinross	Joondalup	Western Australia	91	0.3%	8.7×	759	+699	4	3.5 km	59
Baldivis - South	Rockingham	Western Australia	90	0.3%	5.8×	759	+4,359	3	4.3 km	74
Madeley - Darch	Wanneroo	Western Australia	89	0.3%	7.7×	559	+975	12	2.3 km	60
Coomera	Ormeau - Oxenford	Queensland	86	0.3%	3.7×	436	+5,788	5	3.4 km	76
The Gap	The Gap - Enoggera	Queensland	85	0.3%	9.2×	419	+813	17	0.5 km	54
Robina - East	Robina	Queensland	84	0.3%	4.8×	354	+1,084	8	1.3 km	57
Carindale	Carindale	Queensland	83	0.3%	6.4×	410	+491	14	1.5 km	37
Hallett Cove	Marion	South Australia	83	0.3%	10.3×	270	+185	3	3.5 km	38
Schofields - East	Blacktown - North	New South Wales	81	0.3%	1.0×	258	+19,334	18	1.0 km	81
Hillarys	Joondalup	Western Australia	81	0.3%	13.5×	442	+562	6	3.7 km	58
Mount Isa	Outback - North	Queensland	80	0.3%	5.8×	193	-460	0	105 km	37
Crows Nest - Waverton	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	79	0.3%	2.5×	324	+12	14	5.3 km	50
Cremorne - Cammeray	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	78	0.3%	2.9×	389	-114	11	5.4 km	37
Gordon - Killara	Ku-ring-gai	New South Wales	77	0.3%	1.8×	421	+725	8	3.7 km	64
Neutral Bay - Kirribilli	North Sydney - Mosman	New South Wales	77	0.3%	2.5×	304	-277	12	4.9 km	36
Kenmore	Kenmore - Brookfield - Moggill	Queensland	77	0.3%	8.1×	344	+541	11	0.3 km	51
Mango Hill	North Lakes	Queensland	77	0.3%	3.0×	301	+4,264	11	3.1 km	71

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.