The most recent census of Britain, in 2011, found few places that were less populous than they had been in 2001. Most of the shrinking districts were in the post-industrial north of England. But an unexpected addition to the list was Kensington and Chelsea, London's wealthiest borough, where the population shrank slightly. There, houses are kept empty by rich foreigners who buy them as investments or as occasional summer homes.
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