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Mapping Where Immigrants Settle in London, Street by Street
There are more American-heavy neighborhoods than you might expect.
After electing its first Muslim mayor, London’s multiculturalism has been back in the global news this month. Now a new map shows exactly where the city’s many ethnic groups tend to cluster.
Created by geographer Oliver O’Brien of University College London’s Consumer Data Research Centre, the map also covers the rest of the U.K. and is available in full zoomable form here. Across the country, it shows areas where more than 8 percent of the residents were born abroad. As the street-by-street breakdown makes clear, London has by far the greatest diversity in the country, revealing a city whose demographics continue to evolve and shift.