DATA: The UK’s biggest cities are losing out as people flock to the suburbs according to a report into net migration.
The figures, which will please home counties and south west residential developers, show that Essex, Kent, Devon, East and West Sussex registered the highest rates of net migration, with nearly 32,000 more people moving in compared to out in 2014.
Nearly a third of people moving to those areas are from London according to GoCompare, based on data from ONS Internal Migration series.
Click on the interactive map below to change the view by age group and by region (via Gocompare.com).
London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester were the UK’s biggest losers, losing more than 80,000 people in the year. However, migration for work is almost exclusively towards the south east.
Roughly one in 20 people moved within the UK in 2014, with 19-year-olds the most likely to move.
| Winners | Losers | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Net migration | Net migration | ||
| Essex | 8416 | London | 68634 |
| Kent | 7816 | Birmingham | 5137 |
| Devon | 5409 | Bradford | 3336 |
| East Sussex | 5265 | Manchester | 3076 |
| West Sussex | 4908 |
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