Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment ReportNewham has seen a significant increase in the number of overseas nationalscoming to live and work in the area since 2002There is a range of comparable data available to give an indication of ethnicity across thethree boroughs. In the absence of Census 2011 results, the most up-to-date projections areprovided by GLA. These results can be considered alongside results of the AnnualPopulation Survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics which is less up to date butuses different and more detailed ethnic categories. Also included in this section isinformation about the language habits of local people and information about overseasnationals settling in the area to find work.3.1 Current demographyFigure 3.1 below shows the ethnic composition for each borough. As can be seen, all of thethree boroughs are more ‘diverse’ than the London and national aggregates. Outside ofWhite British, the largest ethnic categories in Newham are ‘Indian’ (9.7%) and ‘Black African’(9.5%); in Tower Hamlets, ‘Bangladeshi’ (20.6%); and in Waltham Forest ‘White Other’(6.8%) and ‘Pakistani’ (6.7%).Figure 3.1: Proportion of population by ethnicity, 2009Source: ONS (2011) from Annual Population Survey 2009 1616 Note that at the time of writing 2009 APS figures were the most up to date. Ethnicity estimates in the AnnualPopulation Survey (APS) have been withdrawn for the April 2010 to March 2011 survey period and are notincluded in the estimates for the July 2010 to June 2011 period published on 18 Jan 2012. In 2010 changes95