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The housing-led projections reconcile future population growth with available housing supply by incorporating a housing supply trajectory. The housing-led projections are recommended for most local planning purposes, and the 10-year variant can be considered the default variant.

Users in London local authorities are able to request bespoke projections based on alternative housing scenarios through the GLA Population Projection Service.

The most recent set of projections are the 2022-based round (August 2024) which comprise three variants based on different migration and fertility assumptions.

All 2022-based projections are based on a common scenario of assumed future housing delivery that is derived from capacity identified in the 2017 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment.

These projections are based on modelled back series of population estimates produced by the GLA and available here.

Additional documentation, including updated information about methodologies and assumptions will be published in the coming days.

For more information about these projections, see the accompanying blog post.

The housing-led projections include projections for London Boroughs and London wards (2022 boundaries). The release also includes components of change (births, deaths and migration data).

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A report summarising the London-level results of the 2022-based projections.

2022-based housing-led population projections for London boroughs and electoral wards (2022 boundaries).

Projection based on:

  • 10-year period of local migration flows with ward results constrained to match the results of the GLA 10-year trend-based projection for ITL2 subregions.
  • Central fertility scenario
  • Identified Capacity housing delivery scenario derived from the 2017 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

2022-based housing-led population projections for London boroughs and electoral wards (2022 boundaries).

Projection based on:

  • 11-year period of local migration flows with ward results constrained to match the results of the GLA 15-year trend-based projection for ITL2 subregions.
  • High fertility scenario
  • Identified Capacity housing delivery scenario derived from the 2017 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

2022-based housing-led population projections for London boroughs and electoral wards (2022 boundaries).

Projection based on:

  • 5-year period of local migration flows with ward results constrained to match the results of the GLA 5-year trend-based projection for ITL2 subregions.
  • Low fertility scenario
  • Identified Capacity housing delivery scenario derived from the 2017 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

A report summarising the results of the 2021-based projections.

2021-based Interim GLA housing-led population projections for London boroughs and wards (2022 boundaries). 10-year migration trend constrained at the NUTS2 level to the GLA 10-year trend projection. Past Delivery housing development scenario.

2021-based Interim GLA housing-led population projections for London boroughs and wards (2022 boundaries). 10-year migration trend constrained at the NUTS2 level to the GLA 10-year trend projection. Housing Targets housing development scenario.

2021-based Interim GLA housing-led population projections for London boroughs and wards (2022 boundaries). 10-year migration trend constrained at the NUTS2 level to the GLA 10-year trend projection. Identified Capacity housing development scenario.

Summary profiles of the 2021-based housing-led projections for each of London's 679 wards