Where the Malaysian community lives in Coffs Harbour
Woolgoolga has the largest Malaysian community: 1% of residents were born in Malaysia.
This page ranks Coffs Harbour suburbs by where the Malaysian community is most established, using the 2021 Census. Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in Malaysia. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are ranked.
Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side — ancestry, country of birth, language spoken at home — but the ABS publishes only one for the Malaysian community, and a zero in place of a question that was never asked would read as an absence of people. Percentile ranks are computed within Coffs Harbour's pool. This is descriptive demographic information, not a recommendation. The census publishes no Malaysian ancestry category, so country of birth is the only published signal. Malaysia-born residents in Australia are largely Malaysian Chinese, alongside Malay and Malaysian Indian communities, so no single language stands in for the group — their speakers are counted on the Mandarin, Cantonese and Tamil lists instead.
Where the Malaysian community lives in Coffs Harbour
Ranked by the share of residents who were born in Malaysia in the 2021 Census, among suburbs with at least 2,000 residents.
Woolgoolga
NSW 2456 · 6,151 residents1% born in Malaysia
Coffs Harbour
NSW 2450 · 27,089 residents0% born in Malaysia
Ranked from 2 qualifying suburbs.
Ranked on the share of residents born in the relevant country (ancestry fragments across sub-groups, so birthplace is the more reliable signal here) in the 2021 Census, percentile-ranked within Coffs Harbour's candidate pool. Every suburb also shows all three census angles — ancestry, country of birth, and language spoken at home — because no single number captures a community on its own. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents qualify. Ancestry is a multiple-response question, so shares read as "residents who reported this ancestry", not an exclusive count. Descriptive ABS Census data, not a recommendation. See how we calculate for the full methodology.
Common questions about this ranking
How is this ranking put together?
Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in Malaysia. The census publishes no Malaysian ancestry category, so country of birth is the only published signal. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are included, and percentile ranks are computed within Coffs Harbour's pool, so the list reflects concentration relative to other metro suburbs.
Why is only one figure shown per suburb?
Malaysia-born residents in Australia are largely Malaysian Chinese, alongside Malay and Malaysian Indian communities, so no single language stands in for the group — their speakers are counted on the Mandarin, Cantonese and Tamil lists instead. Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side, but the ABS publishes a fixed list of ancestries, birthplaces and languages, and they do not cover every community equally. We show the figures that exist rather than filling the gaps with a zero, which would read as an absence of people instead of an absence of a question.
How current is it?
The figures are from the 2021 Census, the most recent available until results from the August 2026 Census are released in 2027. The top 15 is recomputed whenever we refresh the census data.
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Rankings last computed 28 September 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.