Where the Iraqi community lives in Sydney

Fairfield Heights has the largest Iraqi community: 28.4% of residents were born in Iraq. Greenfield Park and Fairfield follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 100 eligible Sydney suburbs. In Sydney suburbs of 2,000+ residents, 1.1% of people were born in Iraq (2021 Census).

Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in Iraq. The census publishes no Iraqi 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 Sydney's pool, so the list reflects concentration relative to other metro suburbs.

Iraq-born residents are not a single community: the group spans Arabic-speaking Iraqis, Assyrians and Chaldeans, Kurds and Mandaeans. No census field separates them — there is no Assyrian language or ancestry category at all — so this page locates Iraq-born residents and claims nothing beyond that. 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.

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.