London's 'sub-regions'

On this website we look at London in different ways. Sometimes we consider London as a whole. This allows us to compare London to the rest of England, but masks the huge variations within the capital. Sometimes we split London in Inner and Outer, which does allow for more subtlety, but still implicitly suggests that Newham and Wandsworth, or Barking & Dagenham and Richmond are somehow the same.

In trying to look for patterns across London, we find breaking it into five sub-regions to be both useful for presentation and of real analytical benefit. The sub-regions, shown in the map below, acknowledge the differences within Inner and Outer London. It also allows us to look along an East/West axis, which is frequently more meaningful than an Inner/Outer one.

Indicator last updated: 18 October 2011