Bognor’s share of illegal migrant channel crossing since 2018 — what the figures suggest
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The Wikipedia story below reveals that since 2018 to August of 2024, some 133,000 people crossed the Channel as illegal migrants. If the figures for the later period to December are added, it seems the total is around 150,000.
The UK population is around 69 million. So, if the number of such people was evenly distributed across the country by share of population, one easily calculate the share of the Bognor Regis Urban Area (Aldwick, Bersted, Bognor Regis Town, Felpham, Middleton-on-Sea and Pagham) whose combined population is around 69,000.
The number of illegal migrants would be around 150, averaged over those years, that would be 21.43 per annum.
