Southwest gains people, says Halifax

Looking at internal migration patters for the UK’s 12 regions, the lender says more than 300,000 people moved to the country’s warmest area in the past decade. As a result the region’s population has increased by a net 6% over the period. The Southeast was the most popular region on a gross basis, with some 2.25m arrivals from elsewhere in the UK, the figures suggest. However, over the same 10-year period some 2.09m people left the Southeast to live elsewhere, meaning a net positive migration just half that of the Southwest at about6 160,000. London also saw a massive shift away from ...