Up to one in 20 residents in parts of England and Wales are immigrants who moved here last year, new analysis suggests.
It comes after Government statistics last week revealed that the total population of the two nations shot up by 700,000 in 2023/24. Immigration fuelled the surge – the second largest since WW2.
The Daily Mail can reveal that net international migration – defined as the difference between the number of people entering the country and leaving – was positive in all but one of 318 councils.
Newham, home to roughly 374,000 people, saw an influx of 17,200 immigrants in the year to mid-2024.
That suggests new migrants arriving from abroad in the last year now account for 4.6 per cent of the London borough's total population – roughly one in 20 people.
