{"id":7985,"date":"2025-07-31T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:48:56","slug":"migration-is-changing-your-area-just-look-at-these-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/migration-is-changing-your-area-just-look-at-these-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration is changing your area &#8211; just look at these numbers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/populationandmigration\/populationestimates\/bulletins\/populationestimatesforenglandandwales\/mid2024\">official estimates for the population of England and Wales<\/a> yesterday, and the results make for dire reading.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already the headlines are coming in thick and fast: \u201cMigration fuels population jump, figures suggest\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c207nzgrz3vo\">from the BBC<\/a>; \u201cNet migration fuels second-biggest population rise in 75 years\u201d, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/net-migration-fuels-second-biggest-population-rise-in-75-years-5ppzpzmf7\">The Times<\/a>; and \u201cBritain\u2019s population growth is now unsustainable\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/2025\/07\/30\/britain-population-growth-is-now-unsustainable\/\">The Telegraph\u2019s editorial for the day<\/a>. None of them are wrong; immigration is now the primary driver of population growth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/what-is-the-problem\">has been for years<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These figures merely confirm that. Across England and Wales, as many as one-third of all local authorities have seen their population increase due purely to immigration. The largest single increase is in Birmingham, where the net migration figure reached 24,235. If immigration had been zero, the city would have actually shrunk by 10,855. Newham, where the ethnic minority population was already around 70%, saw an increase of over 10%. Again, if net migration had been zero, the city would have shrunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:594px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-NGb9W\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/NGb9W\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-NGb9W\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/NGb9W\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale of mass migration means England and Wales are changing before our very eyes; there is now a divergence between those areas of the country growing from natural growth (births minus deaths) and domestic migration (people moving across the country); and those areas growing as a result of net international migration. Two different Britains are emerging, and there is only one cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:800px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-YVCMV\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/YVCMV\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-YVCMV\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/YVCMV\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Even over the last year, population growth in certain parts of the country has been explosive &#8211; Leeds alone has seen a population increase of 11,000 in the last year, while Birmingham has experienced an enormous increase of 13,380&nbsp; and, down the road, Coventry has grown by 9,783 &#8211; again, a product of immigration alone, with net migration to Coventry nearing 15,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By maps<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While these are still only estimates, and the mid-year data for 2024 for Northern Ireland and Scotland are yet to be released, this does allow us to see how England and Wales\u2019 populations are shifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:776px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-rpe4J\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/rpe4J\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-rpe4J\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/rpe4J\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall density of England and Wales is cause of concern in itself: the concentration of populations around cities like Birmingham and Leeds &#8211; highly dense cities with significant levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/5d8e26f6ed915d5570c6cc55\/IoD2019_Statistical_Release.pdf\">existing deprivation<\/a> &#8211; is a microcosm of the increasing strain that population growth, and therefore immigration, is placing on local services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:827px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-AvRJE\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/AvRJE\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-AvRJE\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/AvRJE\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If we readjust our parameters to look at where the population is growing in the country most as a result of immigration, we can see that Birmingham (24,235) is still a major recipient of net migration. However, cities like Manchester (16,620), Bristol (10,070), Coventry (15,446) and Leicester (13,110) have grown even faster in percentage terms, given their lower starting populations. The uneven distribution of immigration into the country means British cities will increasingly look unlike the white British-majority countryside that surrounds them. This will only become more acute as this massive scale of immigration continues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Runaway numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is not simply a recent problem. We know that migration has been out of control since the mid-1990s, but since 2011, cumulative migration in the regions across England and Wales has been completely transformative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:585px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-YYoaY\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/YYoaY\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-YYoaY\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/YYoaY\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Net migration by region has completely run away with itself. Between 2011 and 2024, over three and a half million people have arrived in England alone, and one-third of that (1,045,564) have been arrivals into London. For London, the population of which was 8.9m in the 2021 census, the cumulative net migration figures mean that over 11% have arrived in the last decade and a half.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No region has been left untransformed by the complete dereliction of duty that has defined our border security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>No cap, no control<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Immigration is not an abstract issue of numbers. Unchecked and uncontrolled, it has enormous impacts on the culture, safety, and demography of the country &#8211; and we have been experimenting with the unknown for far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time a government was brave enough to impose a centrally-determined cap on the number of migrants. 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