A new study has found that Britons are leaving areas where they are in a minority and are being replaced by immigrants and other ethnic minorities.
The study by the Demos think-tank warned that Britain is “sleepwalking into segregation” as white Britons are leaving areas where they are in a minority.
As a result of ‘white flight’, nearly half of ethnic minorities in the UK – about 4 million people – live in communities where whites make up less than half of the population, according to the survey.
Demos found that areas where whites are a minority were becoming populated by new British ethnic minorities like Somalis, who often take up housing vacated by established older ethnic minorities like Afro-Caribbeans.
Ethnic minorities now number 4.1 million people living in council wards in which whites, including foreign nationals such as Eastern Europeans, make up less than half the total. This compares to only a million ethnic minorities in the same situation at the time of the 2001 census.
But the study also found that more ethnic minority families are moving into areas which have previously been white-dominated.
In 2001, there were 5,000 council wards where the population was 98 percent white; whereas now there are just 800 wards out of 8,850 with less than 2 percent of ethnic minorities.
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