Around one in six people now living in England and Wales were not born in the UK - and you can see how your area compares with this interactive map. A total of 10 million people living in England and Wales (16.8% of the population) were foreign-born according to the 2021 census, an increase of 2.5 million since 2011, when about 7.5 million residents had been born overseas (13.4%).
Of the top 20 local authority areas with the highest proportion of non-UK-born residents, 18 were in London, including Brent (56.1%), Westminster (55.6%) and Kensington and Chelsea (53.9%). The only non-London areas in the top 20 were Slough (44.0%) and Leicester (41.1%), while Cardiff had the highest proportion of non-UK-born residents in Wales (16.5%).
At the other end of the spectrum, the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents were Staffordshire Moorlands (2.6%) and Caerphilly (2.9%). India remained the most common country of birth outside the UK last year (920,000 people, 1.5% of all usual residents), followed by Poland (743,000 people, or 1.2%), and Pakistan (624,000 people, or 1.0%).
