To the west, high concentrations of people born overseas were found in Parramatta (70%) and surrounding suburbs like Harris Park (76%) and Westmead (68%). In the inner west nearer Sydney Olympic Park, Rhodes and Homebush West (both 73%) also had large concentrations of migrants, as did Burwood (68%).
A common thread globally is the large representation of migrants in major urban centres. This is also true in Australia. At the time of the 2016 Census, 87 per cent of Australia's migrants lived in capital cities, compared with 62 per cent of Australian-born people.
In NSW, Parramatta council area in Sydney's west was the No 1 suburban hot spot for new arrivals, with 7,682 immigrants settling there. More than 20% of Parramatta's residents were born in India and China, according to the 2016 Census.
In 2021, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that Melbourne received the highest intake of immigrants from 2019-20 (56,100 immigrants).
At the 2021 census, there were 2,260,410 people living in Sydney that were born overseas, accounting for 43.2% of the population Sydney, above Vancouver (42.5%), Los Angeles (37.7%), New York City (37.5%), Chicago (20.7%), Paris (14.6%) and Berlin (13%).
The western suburbs, especially the Canterbury-Bankstown area and the CBD area are the cultural diversity hubs of Sydney. Among the greater Sydney area, Lidcombe scores the lowest HHI which means it proudly can call itself the most culturally diverse area.
People from all over the world move to Sydney for various reasons: its temperate climate with warm summers and mild winters; its proximity to some amazingly beautiful countryside and national treasures like the Great Barrier Reef; its outdoorsy lifestyle; its prominent cultural and academic position within Australia; ...
What Sydney suburbs have the biggest Indian population? This is also apparently something people want to know… the Sydney suburbs with the highest proportion of Indian residents include: Harris Park, Westmead, Parramatta, Pendle Hill, Wentworthville, Liverpool and Toongabbie.
The most popular migration is evident in relocating to Brisbane and other areas in QLD. Based on this data, approximately 75% of NSW leavers are headed to QLD, with the majority of the remainder moving to VIC.
Australia's migrant population was rated the world's sixth happiest - even better than our overall 10th ranking on the global happiness league table.
Australia provides its residents with high living standards. The country has effective and fast transportation facilities to cover large distances between cities. Via transport routes, all cities are very well linked. Immigrants can Migrate to Australia easily and conveniently.
Today, the Indian diaspora is Australia's fastest growing large diaspora community and the Indian-born population became Australia's second-largest overseas-born migrant group behind the UK-born at 721,050-strong in 2020.
Harris Park has a plurality of Indian and Hindu population, both making up the largest ethnic and religious group. As a result a precinct in the suburb is officially known as 'Little India'.
Hurstville, 16 kilometres south-west of the CBD, occupies a unique spot on Sydney's demographic map. With more than half of its residents reporting Chinese ancestry, it is the only suburb across all of NSW where one community of non-English migrants outnumbers everyone else combined.
“While exploring the same topic using the latest Census data, an article from the ABC considered Point Cook in Victoria to be the country's most multicultural suburb based on the fact that the residents are from 86 different countries,” notes author Charlotte Pan.
The United States has more international migrants than any other country. With nearly 51 million migrants in 2020, the U.S. leads the world on this measure by a wide margin. Germany has the next-largest such population with about 15.8 million migrants, followed by Saudi Arabia with 13.5 million.
Melbourne and Sydney, which received the second-highest intake of immigrants (50,100 immigrants), tied for first place as the best cities to start a business, garnering 31% of votes. Sydney also took the honours as the top city for well-paying jobs, chosen by 40% of respondents.
However, for the first time in the history of Australia, China surpassed the UK as Australia's primary source of permanent migrants in 2010–11. Since then, China and India have continued to provide the highest number of permanent migrants.
Initially Since the 1980s, Cabramatta has been a centre for the Vietnamese, as well as many residents from other Asian and European origins. Because of its high Vietnamese population, the suburb has earned the nickname 'Little Saigon'.