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Kenya's immigration story is complicated and comprises three distinct groups. The largest number are ethnically-South Asian Kenyans who, like those in Uganda, were forced out during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This community has a substantial cluster in Leicester and by and large mirrors the immigration map for people born in India. The most recent growth may now be coming from ethnically black African-Kenyans, mirroring wider trends across the continent of economic migration to the richer industrialised nations. There are also a small number of Kenyan-born people who are the children of British civil servants based there before the end of the Empire. | | Concentrations of people born in Kenya Map on right shows country as if areas with roughly equal populations were the same size. So, densely populated London takes up much more space than sparsely populated Scottish Highlands. |
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129,356 people born in Kenya were living in Britain in 2001, the largest proportion being ethnically-South Asian. 33,000 people born in Kenya were found across a wide area of north-west London. 55% of the increase in the Kenyan-born population between 1991 and 2001 was in London. 8 of the largest clusters of Kenyan-born people were in the East Midlands, predominantly in or near Leicester. |
Click column titles to sort table by that column. | | | | | | | | Distribution of people born in Kenya |
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| TOTAL NUMBERS | AS % OF ALL PEOPLE |
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Sort by: | 1991 | 2001 | +/- % | 1991 | 2001 | +/- % |
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| Whole of Britain | 112,441 | 129,356 | 15.04 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.03 | | | | East Midlands | 11,582 | 12,505 | 7.97 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.01 | | East of England | 6,911 | 8,667 | 25.41 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.02 | | London | 57,009 | 66,309 | 16.31 | 0.85 | 0.92 | 0.07 | | North East | 621 | 670 | 7.89 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | | North West | 5,058 | 5,471 | 8.17 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.00 | | Scotland | 1,780 | 2,083 | 17.02 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.00 | | South East | 12,354 | 15,086 | 22.11 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.03 | | South West | 3,491 | 4,477 | 28.24 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.01 | | Wales | 1,028 | 1,192 | 15.95 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.00 | | West Midlands | 9,473 | 9,563 | 0.95 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.00 | | Yorks & Humber | 3,134 | 3,333 | 6.35 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.01 |
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| TOTAL NUMBERS | AS % OF ALL PEOPLE |
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| Area | Regions | 1991 | 2001 | +/- % | 1991 | 2001 | +/- % |
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| Greenhill | London | 3,696 | 4,438 | 20.08 | 6.53 | 7.57 | 1.04 | | Sudbury | London | 1,894 | 2,926 | 54.49 | 5.27 | 5.95 | 0.68 | | Belgrave | East Midlands | 2,836 | 2,775 | -2.15 | 5.76 | 5.82 | 0.06 | | Southall W | London | 2,810 | 2,510 | -10.68 | 4.59 | 3.89 | -0.70 | | Isleworth | London | 1,982 | 2,158 | 8.88 | 3.13 | 2.93 | -0.20 | | Rayners Lane | London | 1,606 | 2,050 | 27.65 | 3.34 | 3.95 | 0.61 | | Harrow Weald | London | 1,264 | 1,970 | 55.85 | 2.63 | 4.08 | 1.45 | | Heston | London | 1,821 | 1,837 | 0.88 | 3.96 | 4.17 | 0.21 | | Knighton | East Midlands | 2,059 | 1,816 | -11.80 | 3.63 | 3.33 | -0.30 | | Queensbury | London | 1,995 | 1,808 | -9.37 | 5.20 | 4.73 | -0.47 |
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