The table below summarises how poverty in London compares to five and ten years ago. London remains the most unequal region in the country so the apparent fall in inequality in the table may seem surprising. But this compares the most recent data with the period just before the recession when income inequality reached a peak. Compared with ten years ago, income inequality remains unchanged. The total wealth of a household towards the top (the 90th percentile) is £1.1 million, 173 times higher than the wealth of someone at the bottom. This 90:10 ratio in London is almost three times higher than that for the rest
of England.