ABSTRACT
The 2001 Census is the most recent comprehensive guide to how East London has been changing on the cusp of the new millennium. What was once the most solidly working-class area of London, and remained so as other areas of the city gentried and suburbanised, can no longer be described in such simple terms. The mono ethnic white working-class backyard to London is simply no longer describable in such terms. Whilst there can be no dispute about its multi-ethnicity today, social class remains of key importance in describing its current social structure, but is also central to the contemporary dynamic of the area and the nature of the social change which it is undergoing. It is this complex interaction between ethnicity and social class that describes the social mosaic which constitutes East London today.
