Editing Inner London (section)

{{Short description|Inner boroughs of Greater London}}
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 | name                     = Inner London
 | image_map                = Inner London (statutory).svg
 | map_caption              = [[London Government Act 1963|Statutory]] definition
 | image_map1               = Inner London (statistical).svg
 | map_caption1             = [[Office for National Statistics|Statistical]] definition
 | subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Sovereign state]]
 | subdivision_name         = [[United Kingdom]]
 | subdivision_type1        = [[Countries of the United Kingdom|Country]]
 | subdivision_name1        = [[England]]
 | subdivision_type2        = [[Regions of England|Region]]
 | subdivision_name2        = [[Greater London|London]]
 | subdivision_type3        = Administrative area
 | subdivision_name3        = [[Greater London]]
 | population_total         = 3,404,300
 | population_as_of         = 2021 Census
 | area_total_km2           = 319
 | population_density_km2   = auto
 | blank1_name              = [[NUTS of the United Kingdom|NUTS]]
 | blank1_info              = UKI1
}}

'''Inner London''' is the group of [[London boroughs]] that form the interior part of [[Greater London]] and are surrounded by [[Outer London]]. With its origins in the [[bills of mortality]], it became fixed as an area for statistics in 1847 and was used as an area of local government from 1855 to 1965 principally as the [[County of London]] or earlier as the [[Metropolitan Board of Works]] Area (metropolis). It now has two common definitions. The first is the statutory definition delineated in the [[London Government Act 1963]], coming into force on 1 April 1965, comprising twelve Inner London boroughs and almost identical to the [[County of London]] that was abolished at the same time.<ref>Saint, A., ''Politics and the people of London: the London County Council (1889–1965)'', (1989)</ref> The second is the definition used by the [[Office for National Statistics]] comprising eleven of the statutory Inner London boroughs and two of the statutory Outer London boroughs, as well as the [[City of London]].<ref name=newham>[http://apps.newham.gov.uk/aboutus/PositivelyinnerLondon.pdf Newham London Borough Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630150805/http://apps.newham.gov.uk/aboutus/PositivelyinnerLondon.pdf |date=2007-06-30 }} – Positively Inner London</ref>

Inner London is smaller than Outer London both in terms of population and area, but the population density is more than double that of Outer London. Inner London is officially the wealthiest area in Europe with the most expensive street in Europe: as of 2013, the GDP per capita was more than €80,000<ref name="epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu">{{cite web|url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/1-21032013-AP/EN/1-21032013-AP-EN.PDF |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-03-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403140856/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/1-21032013-AP/EN/1-21032013-AP-EN.PDF |archive-date=2013-04-03 }}</ref> while the UK GDP per capita was around €27,000.<ref name="epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu"/>