Editing Leyton (section)

==Demography==
[[File:Aaranrestsom.jpg|thumb|right|A Somalian restaurant in Leyton High Road in 2012.]]
Leyton, which comprises three electoral wards with a total population of 42,061, is a diverse district. Between 61 and 69 per cent of its residents are either Black, Asian, or from an ethnic minority, according to the [[London Borough of Waltham Forest]]  profile reports for the [[Leyton (ward)]],<ref name="walthamforest1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/2011%20Leyton%20ward%20profile.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 January 2013 |archive-date=17 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817043751/https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/2011%20Leyton%20ward%20profile.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Grove Green<ref name="walthamforest3">{{Cite web |url=http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/documents/ward-profile-grove-green-ward.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817044601/https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/documents/ward-profile-grove-green-ward.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> and [[Lea Bridge (Waltham Forest ward)|Lea Bridge (ward)]]<ref name="walthamforest2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/documents/ward-profile-lea-bridge-ward.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817044238/https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/documents/ward-profile-lea-bridge-ward.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> wards. This compares to 55.1% in the Borough as a whole, according to the [[2011 United Kingdom census]]. Within these groups, there are many people whose origins are from [[Russia]], [[North Africa]], [[Ghana]], [[Nigeria]], [[Jamaica]], [[Ireland]], [[Portugal]], [[Cyprus]], and [[Italy]] as well as newer arrivals from [[South Africa]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Serbia]], and [[Poland]]. Moreover, more than half the population is under the age of 30, according to the most recent census. It is also highly multi-cultural, with just 34% of the population recorded as White British, the lowest White British proportion in Waltham Forest.

Once a more traditional, working class district, it has become much more gentrified and expensive in recent years. A number of articles have referenced the large numbers of young professionals and other university-educated people moving into Leyton, and its subsequent [[gentrification]] and location as a current 'hot spot' to buy in. The area was referenced in the July 2015 edition of [[Vogue (magazine)]], which said: "All eyes are on Leyton and Stratford [right now]."  More widely in Waltham Forest, the borough has seen an influx of those who cannot afford higher house prices or rent in neighbouring Hackney as well as areas such as [[Bethnal Green]] and [[Bow, London|Bow]] in the nearby [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]. Related to this, [[Waltham Forest]] has been one of the fastest rising boroughs in terms of house prices since 2013.