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People in England and Wales are more likely than ever to have neighbours of a different ethnicity.

Census data analysis shows growth of ‘rainbow’ towns and cities, as more people live with neighbours of different backgrounds

Researchers analysing census ethnicity data over the last 20 years found more small local areas in England and Wales are home to a large number of ethnic groups.

 E-Mail Multi-ethnic neighborhoods in England retain their diversity and are much more stable than such neighborhoods in the U.S., according to geographers from the U.S. and U.K. The team examined how neighborhood diversity has changed on a national scale from 1991 to 2011 using U.K. Census data. Past studies of this kind have often focused on neighborhoods in which the presence of two or three different ethnic groups constituted a diverse neighborhood but this study applied a more rigorous s...