Business and Economy

The  State of London report  brings together over 100 datasets about life in the capital – covering its economy, environment, housing market, and social outcomes such as health and education, among many other topics.  Published annually by the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit, the report’s ten chapters provide an array of charts and data, organised around the outcomes...

An Excel workbook containing tables of census data for a range of indicators going back to 1961 where possible. Two versions are offered: the legacy '2011' workbook with data up to 2011, and a '2021' workbook updated to 2021. The 2021 update is a work in progress.

The Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES) are primarily a series of granular scenario-based forecasts for key drivers of demand and generation technologies whose deployment are essential to achieving Net Zero. This includes EVs, decarbonised heating such as heat pumps and district heat networks, and forms of renewable energy generation and storage. For each driver, a range of forecasts are produced under different assumptions.

Through reading this publication you will: • gain an understanding of how house prices are set in economics terms, how they are measured, and why the cost of housing matters for London’s economy and its residents • see whether incomes and earnings in London have kept pace with the costs of home ownership in London, and see how affordability may be affected...