MAPPED: The UK cities where the largest number of migrants have moved to

Birmingham gained the highest fig of caller residents from nett planetary migration. (Image: Getty)

Our caller interactive representation shows the areas that saw the highest levels of immigration successful the UK, arsenic revised authorities figures amusement nett migration past twelvemonth was acold higher than had antecedently been thought.

Sir Keir Starmer held a hastily-arranged property league yesterday accusing the erstwhile Tory authorities of moving an “experiment successful unfastened borders”.

The figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicated that nett migration figures - the quality betwixt radical arriving and leaving the UK - deed a grounds 906,000 successful the 12 months to June 2023.

This was mode successful excess of the erstwhile published estimation of 740,000.

However, the latest ONS estimation for the twelvemonth to June 2024 suggests nett migration to the UK saw a 20% decrease, dropping from 906,000 the erstwhile twelvemonth to 728,000.

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Separate assembly country information shows the parts of the state that saw the highest nett planetary migration successful the twelvemonth to June 2023 - the astir caller information presently disposable astatine a section level.

Birmingham saw the highest fig of caller residents from nett planetary migration, with 24,500 much radical immigrating than emigrating.

Manchester had the 2nd highest fig (18,078), followed by Coventry (15,538), Newham (14,292), Leicester (13,588), and Sheffield (13,141).

You tin spot the interaction caller planetary migration has had wherever you unrecorded with our interactive map.

In agrarian areas, nett migration was acold lower. In South Holland successful Lincolnshire, emigration was really higher than immigration, with 136 much radical moving overseas than arriving.

Immigration besides had a acold greater interaction connected the colonisation constitution of municipality towns and cities than successful agrarian areas.

That was astir noticeable successful Middlesbrough, wherever astir 1,400 radical emigrated, and 8,200 planetary migrants arrived, a quality of conscionable nether 6,800 people.

With an estimated colonisation of astir 152,000, it means astir 1 successful 23 radical present surviving successful Middlesbrough (or 4.4% of the population) are planetary migrants who arrived past twelvemonth alone.

The representation was akin successful Coventry, wherever 4.3% of the colonisation arrived from overseas successful 2023, and successful Newham (3.9%).

Immigration saw a crisp summation nether the points-based strategy for enactment visas enactment successful spot by the Conservatives aft Brexit.

Labour has promised changes to the rules connected enactment visas and skills grooming to trim the dependence connected overseas workers successful immoderate parts of the economy.

Former ex-PM Boris Johnson’s authorities besides allowed students to enactment successful the UK for longer aft graduation and expanded the visa way for workers successful the healthcare sector.

Rishi Sunak past tightened rules, including restrictions connected planetary students and attraction workers' quality to bring household members into the UK. Mr Sunak’s authorities besides raised wage thresholds for enactment visas.

New Tory person Kemi Badenoch has said her enactment got its migration argumentation “wrong” and has pledged to acceptable a “strict numerical cap” - though she's yet to perpetrate to a number.