Barking and Dagenham bucks the ageing population trend

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No matter where you look, London's population is getting older - with the exception of one of the capital's boroughs. Barking and Dagenham is bucking a national trend and by 2037 the avergae age of people living there is set to fall.

Why? Well, the Office of National Statistics says it's down to immigration, the rising birth rate and the high number of young Londoners looking to get on the housing ladder. Here's a look at the average age borough-by-borough.

Barking and Dagenham

  • 1992: 34 years

  • 2037: 33.5 years

Barnet

  • 1992: 35.1 years

  • 2037: 40.4 years

Bexley

  • 1992: 35.9 years

  • 2037: 40.9 years

Brent

  • 1992: 32.2 years

  • 2037: 36 years

Bromley

  • 1992: 38.4 years

  • 2037: 43.2 years

Camden

  • 1992: 33.4 years

  • 2037: 36 years

Croydon

  • 1992: 34.1 years

  • 2037: 40 years

Ealing

  • 1992: 32.9 years

  • 2037: 38.1 years

Enfield

  • 1992: 34.8 years

  • 2037: 38.6 years

Greenwich

  • 1992: 32.9 years

  • 2037: 36.9 years

Hackney

  • 1992: 30.6 years

  • 2037: 34.7 years

Hammersmith and Fulham

  • 1992: 31.7 years

  • 2037: 35.1 years

Haringey

  • 1992: 31.6 years

  • 2037: 37.5 years

Harrow

  • 1992: 35.3 years

  • 2037: 40.7 years

Havering

  • 1992: 37.8 years

  • 2037: 42.1 years

Hillingdon

  • 1992: 34.5 years

  • 2037: 37.5 years

Hounslow

  • 1992: 33.2 years

  • 2037: 37.4 years

Islington

  • 1992: 31.8 years

  • 2037: 34.9 years

Kensington and Chelsea

  • 1992: 34.6 years

  • 2037: 40.9 years

Kingston upon Thames

  • 1992: 35.6 years

  • 2037: 39.1 years

Lambeth

  • 1992: 30.6 years

  • 2037: 35 years

Lewisham

  • 1992: 32 years

  • 2037: 37.4 years

Merton

  • 1992: 34.5 years

  • 2037: 38.7 years

Newham

  • 1992: 30 years

  • 2037: 32.6 years

Redbridge

  • 1992: 35.3 years

  • 2037: 36.8 years

Richmond upon Thames

  • 1992: 37.8 years

  • 2037: 42.2 years

Southwark

  • 1992:

  • 2037:

Sutton

  • 1992: 35.7 years

  • 2037: 42.2 years

Tower Hamlets

  • 1992: 29.7 years

  • 2037: 32.5 years

Waltham Forest

  • 1992: 32.3 years

  • 2037: 37.1 years

Wandsworth

  • 1992: 31.8 years

  • 2037: 34.5 years

Westminster

  • 1992: 34.5 years

  • 2037: 37.6 years

Source: ONS