# Where the growth lands

> The City more than doubles. Richmond shrinks.

- Category: People
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `borough-growth`
- Source: [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/interim-2024-based-housing-led-population-projections/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-growth-lands](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-growth-lands)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-the-growth-lands](https://londongraph.com/data/where-the-growth-lands)

## Methodology

Projected population change by borough, 2021 to 2051, from the GLA's housing-led central variant. The City of London's figure is the arithmetic of a very small base — a few thousand more residents is a doubling there and a rounding error in Croydon. Because the projection is housing-led, this is a map of where homes are expected to be built as much as of where people will choose to go.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-growth-lands): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-growth-lands?view=overview): The City more than doubles. Richmond shrinks.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-growth-lands?view=distribution): Place every mapped area in the selected measure's distribution while preserving missing values.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.