London seems to be more divided on religious than racial grounds. A research by the University of East London has looked at the communal differences in London and has come to the conclusion that a certain amount of segregation works well for Hindus and Jews but Muslims seem to be socially 'trapped' in certain areas as they are more deprived the more they are segregated.

Source: BBC news - 04/09/07 --> Read the article

Religiously the largest religious groupings in London are Christian (58.2%), No Religion (15.8%), Muslim (8.2%), Hindu (4.1%), Jewish (2.1%), and Sikh (1.5%).

Ethnically, according to the 2001 census, 71.15% of the 7.5 million people in London classed their ethnic group as white, 12.09% as Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or "Other Asian", 10.91% as Black, 3.15% as mixed race, 1.12% as Chinese and 1.58% as other (mostly Filipino, Japanese, and Vietnamese).