A majority of people living in Harrow are believed to have been born outside the UK, new figures revealed.

Migration statistics from the ONS showed that, in 2016, an estimated 53.2% of the population were non-UK-born - up from 49.6% the year before.

Harrow is one of five places in Britain where a majority of people are foreign-born, alongside Brent (54.7%), Newham (54.0%), Kensington and Chelsea (52.6%) and Westminster (51.0%).

Last year that list only included Brent, Newham and Kensington and Chelsea.

The ONS said there were an estimated 133,000 foreign-born residents of Harrow in 2016, up from 122,000 in 2015 and 88,000 in 2006.

That means the number has gone up by 45,000 in a decade.

In Kensington and Chelsea, the number was up by far less - from 80,000 in 2015 to 82,000 in 2016.

Across England as a whole, the estimated number of people born outside the UK rose from 7,877,000 to 8,373,000 between 2015 and 2016.

That figure stood at 5,608,000 a decade ago.

It means for every 1,000 people living in England in 2016, 154 were born outside the UK.

That works out as roughly one in seven.

The figures - which are described as estimates - were released by the ONS on Thursday (august 24) as separate data showed overall net migration to the UK had fallen to its lowest level in three years.

The decrease was fuelled by a significant number of EU citizens choosing to leave the country.

Net long-term international migration - the gap between people arriving in the UK and those leaving to go abroad - stood at 246,000 in the year to March 2017 compared to 327,000 the previous year.

The number of EU citizens leaving the UK rose by 33,000 to 122,000 over that period, with the biggest increase among those leaving for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

It still means the UK’s population rose by nearly 250,000 a year due to immigration - which is equivalent to a city roughly the size of Kingston-upon-Hull.

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