Focus on London 2009

Packed with interesting information about our capital city, the Focus on London report offers a unique snapshot of life in London today.

Bringing together a wealth of research, Focus on London contains fascinating facts and figures about the capital on everything from London's longest rivers, to its tallest buildings, busiest tube lines, top tourist attractions and favourite football teams.

The report, which has been produced almost every year since 1890, also sees the first recorded effect of the credit crunch on mobility with the number of people leaving London to live elsewhere in the UK almost halving since 2004.

The report is produced by the GLA's statistical department, Data Management Analysis Group (DMAG) in partnership with the London Development Agency, Office for National Statistics, London Health Observatory, Met Police, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade.

For the first time this year we've opened the City Hall archive and are making parts of the 1909 London Statistics report available online, so you can see exactly how much life has changed for the average Londoner over the last hundred years.

In addition we’ve created a data store for the underlying data sets that support the report so that everyone can access the data and create their own visualisations ... the map below is one that Data Blog at the Guardian have created.

Focus on London 2010