Brisbane's South Asian community sits mainly south of the river — Sunnybank, Runcorn, Calamvale, Stretton and Eight Mile Plains — with rapid growth west through Springfield Lakes, Forest Lake, Redbank Plains and Ipswich, and a newer cluster north around North Lakes and Mango Hill.
It is a smaller community than Melbourne's or Sydney's, and that changes the dynamic: the networks are tighter, word travels faster, and a good number of Brisbane members are also open to matches in Sydney or interstate.
Brisbane's Chinese community centres on Sunnybank and its neighbours — Robertson, Macgregor, Eight Mile Plains and Calamvale — the most established pan-Asian precinct in the city, with an older heritage thread through the Fortitude Valley Chinatown and newer growth south toward Logan.