What are migration levels like in your area?

28 August 2015
By Rob Fry

Migration is a topic which often features in newspaper column inches and on our television screens. Yesterday it was revealed that over the last year net migration (the balance between immigration and emigration) reached its highest ever level of 330,000.

1 in 7 people in England and Wales in 2011 were born outside of the UK

30 July 2015
By Rob Fry

Migration is an important, though often controversial, driver of population change. The potential cost and benefit of immigration is hard to assess because its impact is often not fully realised for many years.

Short term migration: a recent picture

21 May 2015
By Rob Fry

In the year ending mid-2013, many more people left England and Wales (emigration) than came into the country (immigration) on a short-term basis, between 3 and 12 months. The majority of emigrants were British, while immigrants were mainly from the EU.