Lithuanians like Peterborough while Bulgarians prefer Hereford: Places migrants call home
HUNDREDS of thousands of migrants are flocking to some of the UK’s more unlikely destinations, Government figures revealed last night.
The biggest single group came from Poland with almost 80,000 settling in the UK during 2011-12, followed by 47,270 Indians and 38,300 from Pakistan
While London remains the obvious destination for most relocating families, it emerged that Hull, Peterborough, Herefordshire and Warrington all prove popular too.
The revealing picture of Britain in 2013 was revealed in Department for Work and Pensions data that showed where 600,000 migrants applied for a National Insurance number.
The biggest single group came from Poland with almost 80,000 settling in the UK during 2011-12, followed by 47,270 Indians and 38,300 from Pakistan.
Poles seem to favour a life in Northern Ireland, while Herefordshire is a huge draw for Bulgarians. Zimbabweans tend to head for Leicester.
The immigration map shows second city Birmingham is popular with Chinese, Afghans, Eritreans and Bangladeshi migrants.
A surprise entry was Peterborough, the city of choice for many of the 33,190 Lithuanians who arrived. Meanwhile, fed-up Iraqis appear to be flocking to former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s home city of Hull, Humberside.
Slovaks arriving on these shores meanwhile make a beeline for Warrington, Cheshire.
Unemployment has hit a record 12 per cent across the 17 countries using the euro, figures showed yesterday. More than 19million working-age adults were jobless in the eurozone in February, according to data from the European Union’s own statistics office.