This work by GLA City Intelligence (the latest update of which was published in June 2025) aims to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date picture of London’s economic and social realities. Our latest report differs slightly from previous ones in that it highlights London’s performance against a set of ‘London-level outcomes’ that pertain to important Mayoral priorities for the capital. That...

The GLA Civil Society and Sport Unit Youth Team have commissioned London Metropolitan University Centre for Applied Research in Empowering Society (CARES) team to undertake research into the challenges that young Londoners face, to help shape the GLA’s holistic approach to empowering the voice of young Londoners. The project involves reviewing evidence gathered by the GLA to map out the ecosystem...

Opinions of Londoners are at the heart of policy making at the Greater London Authority (GLA). City Hall conducts regular research with Londoners to provide evidence and insight into public opinion and behaviours, in order to support effective and impactful policy making and the development of strategies and programmes of work. These pages detail the latest research conducted by the GLA...

This dataset supports the Mayor's equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy published in 2018. It brings together publicly available data relevant to equalities in London into a series of measures. These will be updated over time to monitor the delivery of the strategy. After the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020, there was a need to capture and bring together appropriate data...

The GLA Grants Dataset contains data relating to grants which have been awarded by the GLA since 2013. The dataset uses the 360 Giving Standard, to ensure the data is clear and accessible. This dataset can also be accessed on the 360 giving navigation site GrantNav, which allows grant-makers and others to explore how grants are used, areas of commonality...

This work looks at in-work poverty in London between 1996 and 2023. It provides an overview of the links between working-age poverty and employment participation at the individual and household levels in the capital. Some key findings include: Poverty has changed. There are now more people in poverty in London who are in a working family than in a...

Data on this page shows the gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting and (from 2021) disability pay gap reporting for staff employed by the London Fire Brigade. The London Fire Commissioner (LFC) is the fire and rescue authority for London, and runs the London Fire Brigade (LFB).  As a functional body reporting to the Mayor of London, LFB has a commitment...

The ESOL Planning Map, first published in September 2021, is based on the English language proficiency dataset from the Census of 2021, specifically the 'little' or 'no English' categories (combined). It aims to support ESOL providers, funders, commissioners and policymakers with ESOL planning and policymaking. The map includes information on local ESOL providers funded via the Mayor’s Adult...

In 2018-19 the GLA first undertook a Survey of Londoners. At the time it provided vital evidence on Londoners that had never been collected before in such detail.  In 2021-22, the GLA conducted another Survey of Londoners, following the same methodology as the Survey of Londoners 2018-19, an online and paper self-completion survey of adults aged 16 and over in London. The...

Ratio of household equivalised income of the top 10 per cent of households to the income of the bottom 10 per cent of households. Ratio calculated using weekly household income adjusted to take account of differences in numbers and ages of residents. This dataset is one of the Greater London Authority's measures of Economic Fairness. Click here to...