Migration analysis · Public attitudes

What Britain actually thinks about immigration.

The system data answers what happens. This answers what people make of it — how attitudes differ by migrant type, how much the public is thinking about immigration at all, and whether a synthetic population can reproduce either.

24 August 2026Feb 2024 – Mar 2026Public sources throughout
55%
want immigration reduced overall
43%
want more nurses
67 → 38
point spread between most and least wanted group
5% → 26%
naming immigration a top issue, low to high
Attitudes
How preference differs by migrant type, and what Southport did to it
4 waves · 13 groups
Salience
How much the public is thinking about immigration, which moves far more than opinion
2018–2023 monthly
Method
The synthetic population, how it is validated, and what is still blocked
50,000 agents
The single finding worth leading with: the headline number has barely moved in two years — 52% wanted immigration reduced in February 2024, 55% in March 2026 — while the structure underneath it moved a great deal. A model that tracks only "pro or anti" would report nothing happening.
This section is generated from the analysis pipeline rather than written by hand: every figure is read from a processed file that was itself derived from a published source, so the numbers on these pages cannot drift from the data behind them.