Population and diversity facts

• London's 7.5 million residents account for 12.5 per cent of the UK population (1)
  
  
• 30.7 per cent of London's population belong to non-white ethnic groups (2)
  
  
• 44 per cent of London's residents are aged between 20 and 44 years-old, compared with 35 per cent of the UK population (3)
  
  
• of the 28 local authority areas in the UK identified as 'highly diverse' by the government, 24 are in London (4)
  
  
• Brent is the most ethnically diverse local authority area in the UK with an 85 per cent chance that any two residents drawn at random would come from different ethnic groups (5)
  
  
• 58 per cent of people living in London describe themselves as Christian, compared with 72 per cent in England and Wales as a whole (6)
  
  
• 85 per cent of Londoners say that their local area is a place where people of different backgrounds get on well together (7)
  
  
• of the 18,059 civil partnerships in the UK between December 2005 and December 2006, almost one in four (4,488) took place in London (8)
  

Sources

(1) Focus on London 2007, table 1.2 ONS/GLA
(2) Table 2, Labour Market Data for Local Areas by Ethnicity, ONS, Oct 2004
(3) ibid
(4) Focus on Ethnicity and Religion 2006, ONS
(5) ibid
(6) 2001 Census, table KS07 religion
(7) London Councils' survey of Londoners 2007/08
(8) National Statistics press release 28 June 2007 'More than 18,000 civil partnerships formed'