One in 20 Residents Now Migrants in Parts of UK

 

A population boom driven by record immigration has sent shockwaves across England and Wales — with new figures revealing that in some areas, one in every 20 residents only arrived in the country last year.

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data paints a stark picture of Britain’s rapidly shifting demographics. In just 12 months to mid-2024, the population of England and Wales surged by more than 700,000 — the second-largest increase since World War II — with immigration accounting for the vast majority of the rise.

Only one of 318 councils saw more people leave than arrive. In most places, the numbers were firmly in the plus column.

 

London’s Newham Borough Tops the List
Newham saw a staggering 17,200 newcomers in a single year, meaning new arrivals now make up 4.6% of the borough’s population — that’s roughly one in 20 people. Luton (4.3%) and Coventry (4.2%) aren’t far behind.

While Birmingham saw the highest raw number of new arrivals (38,700), its population of 1.2 million dilutes the visible impact. Contrast that with the City of London, where despite having just 15,000 residents, 10.8% arrived from abroad last year.

Only South Holland in Lincolnshire recorded a net decline — with 695 emigrating and just 557 moving in.

 

A Nation Transformed – And Struggling to Cope
Critics warn Britain’s infrastructure is buckling under the strain. Schools, hospitals, housing and transport are all feeling the heat. And despite a modest natural population rise of just under 30,000 (births minus deaths), immigration delivered over a million new arrivals. Subtract 450,000 who left, and that’s a net gain of 550,000 migrants.

Robert Bates, of the Centre for Migration Control, didn’t hold back:

“Assimilation has become impossible. The scale is too great. Our national culture is being eroded. Public services are stretched to breaking point, and the government’s blind faith in open borders has failed the British people.”

He demanded an overhaul of the visa system, a block on welfare access for foreign nationals, and urgent investment in British skills and jobs.

 

 

Tories, Reform, and Labour Trade Blows
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage blasted the figures as “disastrous for the quality of life of everyone in the country.”

Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam warned the UK is “rising at an unsustainable pace”, adding:

“This isn’t just data on a spreadsheet. It’s pressure on schools, on GP waiting times, and on British wages. We cannot build or plan fast enough to keep up.”

Migration Watch UK boss Alp Mehmet said:

“The population of England and Wales grew by the equivalent of Newcastle in a year — and only 30,000 of that was from natural increase.”

He also warned the UK could see a white British minority “within 30–35 years” unless immigration is brought under control.

 

Starmer’s Crackdown – or Just More Chaos?
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper turned the spotlight on the Tories, saying:

“Net migration hit nearly a million a year under their watch. They promised it would fall — it didn’t. We’re the ones cleaning up the mess.”

Labour’s immigration crackdown includes:

• Raising the skills threshold for entry

• Tougher English language requirements

• A 10-year wait for citizenship

• Automatic deportation for certain crimes

 

Sir Keir Starmer also signed a “one in, one out” migrant deal with French President Emmanuel Macron — a swap plan to ease pressure in the Channel. But critics say it lacks ambition and won't solve the small boats crisis.

The Labour leader stirred controversy in May with a fiery warning that Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers” — a comment that drew comparisons to Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech. Starmer later said he “deeply regretted” the phrasing, though polls show most Brits weren’t offended.

 

ONS: ‘Figures May Overlap’
The ONS cautioned that some population categories may blur — for instance, someone could be both an immigrant and an internal migrant, or pass away shortly after arrival, complicating the totals.

Still, the direction of travel is clear: Britain is changing fast — and not everyone is on board.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Source Daily Mail  2025-08-04

 

 

 

 

 

abour’s immigration crackdown includes:

• Raising the skills threshold for entry

• Tougher English language requirements

• A 10-year wait for citizenship

• Automatic deportation for certain crimes

THE BOATS DONT CARE !!

Perhaps Starmer should fire the head of the UK's Office for National Statisics that produced these figures?

 

.Print the map again in 6 months, you won't be needing much in the way of blue colour with any luck.

On 8/4/2025 at 9:53 AM, CharlieH said:

“Assimilation has become impossible. The scale is too great. Our national culture is being eroded. Public services are stretched to breaking point, and the government’s blind faith in open borders has failed the British people.”

He demanded an overhaul of the visa system, a block on welfare access for foreign nationals, and urgent investment in British skills and jobs.

Yes indeed, fighting words, but alas far too late! 

Demographics change.  What a shock.

The UK is slowly working it's way to becoming a Muslim country 

Sadiq Khan will be proud 👏 🥲 

Probably new leader 

I utterly despair when I read things like this. Given that there is not enough housing for the people lining here where the ***k do an additional 700,000 live. I know it is popular in urban areas for sheds and garages to spring up housing people or the 12 or more to a house with hot beds and people on shifts. Just think, shouldn't it be the job of the Government to put a stop to this?

https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/press-releases/england-needs-more-bedrooms-with-850000-families-living-in-overcrowded-homes-today/

"But most households in England today are ‘under-occupying’ their homes, meaning they have more bedrooms than deemed necessary for their household composition. As many as three-in-four single pensioners now live in a home with a spare bedroom. Overall, 71 per cent of households have at least one spare bedroom, 2 percentage points more than 30 years ago."

You can see it coming, pensioners are kicked out of their 3 or 4 bedroom houses to make may for migrant  families

We're gonna need a bigger jail ...... for tha Albanian gangsters and Pakistani grooming gangs.

58 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

We're gonna need a bigger jail ...... for tha Albanian gangsters and Pakistani grooming gangs.

No they will be let loose in the community. The prisons are full of people who said hurty words. In the 5 years or so it will take to build new prisons, assuming the Government agrees to spend the money, the population will have grown by 3.5 million.

 

Where's Chomper to tell us all is A-Ok with Sir Keir at the helm? 😄

6 hours ago, MarkyM3 said:

Where's Chomper to tell us all is A-Ok with Sir Keir at the helm? 😄

Maybe he's busy?  Anyway, give the government a chance and judge them at the next election. That's how democracy works.

On 8/4/2025 at 9:50 PM, Formaleins said:

.Print the map again in 6 months, you won't be needing much in the way of blue colour with any luck.

Just wait 10yrs and there won't be any Brits left to count.

How did Edward The Long Shanks put it discussing Scotland: The problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots and if we can't push them out we'll breed them out. Well, that seems to be what your Farsi speaking mayor of London thinks about the whole UK. He just ain't waiting for the whole "breed them out" part. 

Definitely a headline that will have the gammons ranting & gnashing their teeth.🤣

39 minutes ago, mrwebb8825 said:

How did Edward The Long Shanks put it discussing Scotland: The problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots and if we can't push them out we'll breed them out.

Utter B.S.

There is no record of King Edward making that very grammatically correct English language statement!

It was made by that dreadful portrayal of William Wallace in the film Braveheart by Mel Gibson!

'We must be mad, litterally mad' - Enoch Powell 1968 on immigration and the prospect of UK cities becoming immigrant majorities. They said he was an alarmist and a racist, but he was right. He learned Urdu so he could speak to constituents, never hear of a socialist doing that.

53 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

Definitely a headline that will have the gammons ranting & gnashing their teeth.🤣

 

   No need for racism .

Racist language is generally unacceptable these days 

20 hours ago, Geoff914 said:

I utterly despair when I read things like this. Given that there is not enough housing for the people lining here where the ***k do an additional 700,000 live.

 

9 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Anyway, give the government a chance and judge them at the next election. That's how democracy works.

 

Sure

 

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Ouch! Activity in the UK construction sector has fallen at the fastest rate in over five years, indicating the government is struggling to hit its housebuilding targets.

 

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Builders reported lay-offs, recruitment freezes and the nonreplacement of leavers, and also cut back on their use of subcontractors.

 

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Starmer declines to rule out election pledge-breaking tax rises in budget, after claim Treasury must fill £40bn deficit

 

And the Channel is currently full of dinghies, bringing new nurses, doctors and NASA scientists.

 

This Government are a walking, talking, lying,  disaster area.

17 minutes ago, proton said:

We must be mad, litterally mad'

 

Could we ditch the " We " please.

 

Mentalism has infected politicians and certain segments of the population.

I read that this morning. Now the black hole in the economy is £40 billion. Mind you still less than HS2 so it can't be that bad.

2 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

Could we ditch the " We " please.

 

Mentalism has infected politicians and certain segments of the population.

I think we are all mad because we tolerate it. In France by now every street that still had cobbles would have been ripped in the riots.

Just now, Geoff914 said:

I think we are all mad because we tolerate it.

 

There are demonstrations all over the UK. Which suggests that " We " are not all mad.

 

I doubt that demonstrations will have any effect, and the next step is Civil disobedience, followed by full on rioting.

 

Perhaps the  mentalists will be happy then. As currently they seem to be in denial, attacking sources they do not agree with, and engaging in widespread obfuscation and deflection.

13 minutes ago, Geoff914 said:

Now the black hole in the economy is £40 billion.

Stop sending money to Ukraine  for 100 years !!

Use the Royal Navy to turn back the small boat invaders

any that do make it through  should be housed in a detention camp

not 4 star hotels  and returned to whence they came ASAP.

 

Of course there are legitimate asylum seekers and legal immigrants who should use the proper ways to  enter the country and once in the country they should integrate and become productive members of society  not welfare dependants or criminal gang members.

 

There also needs to be 'affordable' housing and worth wile jobs that allow persons to purchase the housing and live a semi decent standard of living without being in dept up to their eyeballs for the rest of their life.

 

In short  everything is far too expensive because of the greed of

corporations and the  misguided or down right crazy government policies  in favour of those corporations  instead of in favour the citizens of the country..'Net Zero' being just one crazy suicidal policy.

5 hours ago, DezLez said:

Utter B.S.

There is no record of King Edward making that very grammatically correct English language statement!

It was made by that dreadful portrayal of William Wallace in the film Braveheart by Mel Gibson!

 

On 8/5/2025 at 10:13 AM, Geoff914 said:

You can see it coming, pensioners are kicked out of their 3 or 4 bedroom houses to make may for migrant  families

 

Just substitute UK for any Commonwealth country and same story.

 

A similar idea was floated in Canada about introducing an empty rooms tax on families who live in 'too big' a home.

 

All by design like I said before.

6 hours ago, MarkBR said:

Definitely a headline that will have the gammons ranting & gnashing their teeth.🤣

Says you sitting in splendid isolation. 

 

As for the phrase "gammons", possibly the laziest slur around. No, they're just people who care about their country and the ruination of it. Unlike youself who finds it hilarious. WAC.

 

15 minutes ago, MarkyM3 said:

As for the phrase "gammons", possibly the laziest slur around. 

I think you'll find it's actually "woke". Super lame.

14 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

I think you'll find it's actually "woke". Super lame.

I'll take over "woke" over "gammons", at least it actually has some level of meaning to people, as cliched as it may be. 

 

I'll also add that the overuse of "super" is pretty lame as well. Crept into everyday language usage like a virus 😄

 

12 hours ago, The Cyclist said:

 

 

Sure

 

 

 

 

And the Channel is currently full of dinghies, bringing new nurses, doctors and NASA scientists.

 

This Government are a walking, talking, lying,  disaster area.

Then they won't get your vote at the next election. 

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Then they won't get your vote at the next election. 

 

The would never get my vote, after Blair's lot

 

* Robbing pension funds

 

* Selling the gold at a steal

 

* PFI that won't be paid off until 2060.

 

Just for starters.

 

How about an answer to this ?
 

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But new data released by the NHS Business Services Authority under freedom of information laws, reveal that the majority – 59 per cent – of the 1.56 million issued across the UK in the last five years, 920,199 were awarded to asylum seekers.

 

 

Are you frightened of reality or unable to get your head around successive Governments have been lying through their teeth to try and suppress what is really happening ?