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Originally Posted by CyberEric

Camden: 235,400 in 8.4 sq miles, 28k ppsm
Greenwhich: 228,500 in 18.4 sq miles, 12k ppsm
Hackney: 219,200 in 7.3 sq miles. 30k ppsm
Hammersmith and Fulham: 169,700 in 6.3 sq miles, 27k ppsm
Islington: 194,100 in 5.74 sq miles, 34k ppsm
Kensington and Chelsea: 169,500 in 4.68 sq miles, 36k ppsm
Lambeth: 284,500 in 10.36 sq miles, 27k ppsm
Lewisham: 266,500 in 13.5 sq miles, 20k ppsm
Southwark: 287,000 in 11.14 sq miles, 26k ppsm
Tower Hamlets: 237,900 in 7.6 sq miles, 31k ppsm
Wandsworth: 289,600 in 13.23 sq miles, 22k ppsm
Westminster: 253,100 in 8.29 sq miles, 31k ppsm


2,834,800 in 114.94 = 24,663 ppl/sq mile
Or 123 sq miles by ONS definition with ~3 million people.

For comparison, Paris is over 2 million people in about 40 square miles, making it much denser than London.

Another comparison with the closest amount of square mileage would be NY's three boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx at 136 sq miles with 5,526,595 people. This is clearly much, much denser than Inner London as well.

Interesting analysis. I looked up the City of Toronto, Old Toronto which is the inner city before amalgamation, and Downtown Toronto:

City of Toronto
240 square miles
2,615,060
10,750 people/square mile

Old Toronto
37 square miles
736,775
19,642 people/square mile

Downtown Toronto
4.5 square miles
175,064
38,903 people/square mile


The Old City of Toronto is an area about one-third the size of Inner London, but has a density approaching that of Inner London. Having lived in both London and Toronto, these figures seem about right. Toronto tends to get denser the closer to downtown one gets rather than the more uniform density one sees in London. Downtown Toronto is very dense and comparable to Kensington & Chelsea which I highlighted.