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Increasing Diversity Within Increasing Diversity: the Changing Ethnic Composition of London's Neighbourhoods, 2001–2011
Author(s) -
Johnston Ron,
Poulsen Michael,
Forrest James
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
population, space and place
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1544-8452
pISSN - 1544-8444
DOI - 10.1002/psp.1838
Subject(s) - ethnic group , ethnic composition , ethnically diverse , diversity (politics) , census , geography , cultural diversity , composition (language) , economic geography , sociology , demography , population , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy
London has become an ethnically much more diverse city over recent decades but has that growing macro‐scale diversity been replicated in its myriad neighbourhoods? Using recently released 2011 census data and an established methodology for classifying small areas according to the ethnic composition of their populations, this paper explores the extent and nature of change in those areas over the decade 2001–2011. It identifies two main patterns: firstly, in many parts of London where Whites previously predominated neighbourhoods are more mixed ethnically; secondly, in those areas where Whites were in a minority by 2011 there were even fewer Whites but without the development of separate enclaves where one Non‐White group predominates. The result is an ethnic landscape characterised by two types of changing diversity. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.