Despite this seemingly unchanged poverty level, the nature of poverty in London – in terms of the typical age, tenure, work status and location of those in poverty – has been transformed. In the last decade, the number of pensioners in poverty has fallen by 30% to 180,000 whilst the number of working-age adults in poverty has risen by 30% to 1.4 million. The share of low-income households living in the outer boroughs continues to grow and currently stands at 60%.