Demographics

The Mayor of London has placed a high priority on improving social integration, equality, diversity and inclusion, economic fairness and food security across the city. Recognising the need for better evidence in these areas to ensure that policy and programmes have maximum impact, the GLA conducted the Survey of Londoners in 2018-19, an online and paper self-completion survey of adults aged...

This work looks at the spiralling cost of living and the challenges facing Londoners including the rising poverty levels in the capital. The latest update is dated August 2022. The report and public attitudes and behaviour charts (published 1 February 2022) were republished (7 April 2022) to correct a calculation error. This error was due to manual calculation.

On 28 June 2022 ONS released the first results from the 2011 Census of England and Wales comprising for each local authority the estimated population at census day (21 March 2021) and the number of households. Population estimates are by five-year age band and sex. Estimates of responses rates for each local authority were also published. Read our blog post which...

These reports present assessments of the available evidence concerning population change in London since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main document (May 2021) is accompanied by a short summary report and an annex that provides an overview of the data sources considered. In February 2022 a report was released which integrated new evidence that had become available since the original analysis.

This report presents the findings of an exploratory qualitative research project carried out with children and families living in insecure private rented sector accommodation. The aims of the research were to understand the impact of living in the private rented sector on a range of areas of children's lives, including education, health and their sense of security. The findings of this project...

There are a number of sources for estimates of the size and distribution of ethnic group populations in England. These estimates vary in quality, accuracy, timeliness, and detail; in some cases, the underlying definition of what constitutes the resident population is different. This document outlines in some detail the major sources of ethnic group information currently available at the national...

The ethnic group projections are produced for London borough and provide detailed projection by 17 ethnic groups of London’s future population. Two variants are produced: one consistent with the 2016-based central trend projection, and one consistent with the 2016-based housing-led projection. The 2016-based projections remain the most recent set of GLA ethnic group projections.

At the end of 2020 the GLA commissioned the University of Essex to analyse the impact on Londoners of the Covid-19 crisis, of the emergency policies put in place since March 2020 and of some counterfactual policy options, including the continuation of the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit.  The researchers used UKMOD, the UK tax-benefit microsimulation model, to conduct their analysis.

This briefing presents evidence on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on London and Londoners​ Topics included in the briefing focus on recent data releases published in the preceding months that tell us how social policy issues are evolving in London since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic For more on the health and demographic impacts see the Demographic...

At the end of 2019 the Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned the Social Market Foundation (SMF) to conduct research focusing on how the outcomes of graduates who have studied in London and those from London vary, by a range of different characteristics. This research uses a range of methods to gain insight into the outcomes of graduates who were domiciled in...