Location and population of London:
● Located in the Northern hemisphere in the
UK
○ Is in southern England , on the River
Thames
● Population of 7, 556, 900 → 12.5% of the UK
population
○ Living on just 0.6% of the land area
● Has an area of 616 square miles
● Reached its population peak in 1939 →
predicted to go beyond that level in 2019
○ The population growth is due to
natural increase – 133,000 babies
born last year
○ Makes it the 14 th largest capital city
with 8.1 million people
Business:
● London owns 15 out of 250 of the world’s
largest corporations
● Number of businesses per 1,000
working-age people → higher than any other
UK region
● 11.2% of companies had £1 million
turnover/profit , compared with 9% in the rest
of the UK
Jobs:
● 809,000 people commute into Greater
London for work
● Total of 5,053,000 jobs in 2012
● Workers increase the city population by
around 1.4 mil per day
● Over half of working Londoners have a
degree
Tourism:
● Receives 16.9 million visits in 1 year
● Has the highest tourist spend of $21 billion
○ More visitors from America than any
other country
○ ⅔ of all visits are from Europeans
Transport hub:
● Journeys by private transport (car) have
fallen since 2000
● Half a million journeys made by bike each
day
● Public transport journeys have increased by
over 40% since 2000
● Heathrow carried more than 69.4 million
passengers in 2011 → more than any other
airport in the UK
Greenspace:
● 65% of London’s area is gardens, public
green space or water
● 223 London parks and green spaces hold
Green Space Awards
● Has 8 Royal Parks and numerous other
garden squares, council parks and other
green spaces
Diversity:
● Over 2 million Londoners don’t speak English
at home
● 3 most commonly spoken languages apart
from English are Bengali, Urdu and Polish
● ⅓ of Londoners were born abroad
● 36% (almost 3 million) are from black, asian, &
minority ethnic groups
Transport hub:
● Journeys by private transport (car) have
fallen since 2000
● Half a million journeys made by bike each
day
● Public transport journeys have increased by
over 40% since 2000
● Heathrow carried more than 69.4 million
passengers in 2011 → more than any other
airport in the UK
Finance and economy:
● London is UK’s largest and wealthiest city
○ Londoners earn 23% more than UK
average
■ Accounts for over ⅕ of the
total gross value added in
the UK
○ Londoners spend 24% more than UK
average
● The median house price in London was
£305,000 (2011) → 69% more than the
national average
● The 6 th largest economy in the world
Diversity:
● Over 2 million Londoners don’t speak English
at home
● 3 most commonly spoken languages apart
from English are Bengali, Urdu and Polish
● ⅓ of Londoners were born abroad
● 36% (almost 3 million) are from black, asian, &
minority ethnic groups
Crime (public safety):
● Crime rate in Met Police Areas has fallen for
10 consecutive years