Most popular second languages across every London Borough

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I found this fascinating, if it’s to be believed. I would have guessed two of them.

  • Barking and Dagenham - Romanian 4.78%
  • Barnet - Persian or Farsi 2.25%
  • Bexley - Romanian 0.95%
  • Brent - Gujarati 6.56%
  • Bromley - Portuguese 0.59%
  • Camden - French 2.22%
  • Croydon - Polish 1.67%
  • Ealing - Panjabi 4.88%
  • Enfield - Turkish 5.91%
  • Greenwich - Nepalese 2.11%
  • Hackney - Turkish 3.21%
  • Hammersmith and Fulham - French 2.51%
  • Haringey - Turkish 3.76%
  • Harrow - Romanian 7.54%
  • Havering - Romanian 2.28%
  • Hillingdon - Panjabi 4.65%
  • Hounslow - Panjabi 4.71%
  • Islington - Spanish 2.22%
  • Kensington and Chelsea - French 3.37%
  • Kingston upon Thames - Tamil 1.6%
  • Lambeth - Spanish 4%
  • Lewisham - Spanish 2.36%
  • Merton - Polish 2.78%
  • Newham - Bengali 6.36%
  • Redbridge - Romanian 4.31%
  • Richmond upon Thames - Spanish 0.9%
  • Southwark - Spanish 4.37%
  • Sutton - Tamil 2.17%
  • Tower Hamlets - Bengali 10.97%
  • Waltham Forest - Romanian 3.97%
  • Wandsworth - Spanish 1.9%
  • Westminster - Arabic 3.74%
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It’s all Greek to me!

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What’s the first most spoken language d00d? Russian?
It will be soon if Putin has his way…

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Westminster,Arabic.
Was that one of your guesses ? :grinning:

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Hmm!
Richmond upon Thames is interesting. A nice place to live. Must remind myself to win the lottery! :thinking:

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The data is probably already out of date as there’s so much movement in London

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Erm, not sure now, but when you think about it the Borough goes from Westminster proper right up to Maida Vale, with its ME Restaurants and Hookah Bars. Some well healed Arabs, flashy cars.

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Fascinating. Although I’d like to see if the main language spoken in Westminster is, in fact, Bullshit.

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Perhaps they should amend the census form to add this category.

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“Bovine” being the more politic choice :wink:

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