London’s Poverty Profile
Benefits & welfare reform Demography Education Health Homelessness Housing Inequality Low income Low pay Work & Worklessness
Children Disabled People Ethnicity Migrants Pensioners Women Working-age adults Young adults
Borough Overview Barking & Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

Pensioners

Londoners aged over 65

Key findings

>2%

of Londoners are aged over 85 years.

19%

of London's pensioners live below the poverty line - down from 21% a decade ago, but still higher than the rest of England (14%).

Pensioners: indicators

Data

Work status and income

Data

What is poverty?

Data

Poverty by age

Data

Work and poverty

Data

London's population by age

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