Sparkbrook is one of the poorest places in Britain. Fully 10% of - TopicsExpress



          

Sparkbrook is one of the poorest places in Britain. Fully 10% of the population claims unemployment benefit, compared with just 3% nationally. According to the government’s Indices of Multiple Deprivation, Sparkbrook is more impoverished than 96% of England. It is also one of England’s most ethnically diverse areas. The 2011 census reported that just 9% of people in Sparkbrook were white and British. Some 43% were Pakistani; the rest were mostly a mix of Indian, Bangladeshi and Somali. And whereas in poor white parts of Britain high streets are dying, in Asian areas such as Sparkbrook, or Manningham in Bradford, they are thriving. Pakistanis in Britain have always been entrepreneurial...
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:53:53 +0000

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