London’s poverty profile

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Key facts

27% of Londoners live in poverty after housing costs are taken into account, compared with 20% in the rest of England. The cost of housing is an important factor in London's higher poverty rate.
The majority of people living in poverty are in a working family. As employment has increased so has the number of people in a working family in poverty – from 700,000 to 1.2 million in the last decade, an increase of 70%.
The total wealth of a household at the bottom (the 10th percentile) is £6,300; towards the top (the 90th percentile) it was £1.1 million. London's 90:10 wealth ratio is 173, almost three times the ratio for the rest of Britain (at 60).
The number of unemployed adults is at its lowest level since 2008, at just over 300,000. The unemployment ratio in Inner London has halved over the past 20 years reaching 5.6%, slightly higher than Outer London (5.2%) and the rest of England (4.8%).
Almost 700,000 jobs in London (18%) pay below the London Living Wage. This number ...