The Gurkha Settlement rights development in the 2009 – 2010 period constituted a major revolutionary new dynamic where Nepali UK settlement was concerned (a perceived tenfold+ expansion of the Nepali population of the UK). 

Because of the unintended shortcomings in the Whitehall (ONS and related census) created UK population data gathering systems there is still in 2020 not any scientific, reliable national to localities and socio-economic and Nepali sub-populations data available, crippling services planning from local authority to UK national and government level agencies and public services organisations service provisions – a situation that serves ill support for the effective integration of our new citizens from Nepal (most ex-servicemen and their families) that have major support needs. 

Estimates for the UK Nepali population range consequently from about 80,000 to 150,000+.

In terms of main locations for the UK Nepali population, these have for reasons of the Brigade of Gurkhas (and its various regiments and components ranging from crack troop frontline to ceremonial) British Army dynamic, been mostly British Army garrisons and bases linked. 

However, it is important to record that separate to this medical and healthcare professions have played their part regarding the pioneer development of the UK Nepali population, and that a major migration of nursing professionals initiated by NHS South Asian area overseas recruitment took place between the late 1990s and middle of the first decade of the 21^st Century, a number of years before the Gurkha settlement rights landmark development.

Beyond these, at a much smaller level, university associated communities, and with major UK cities natural directions for UK Nepali community members British citizens to settle in, and of course smallest in terms of settlement locations towns and rural locations (these destinations usually linked to Nepali – indigenous British citizens marriages and partnerships.  The following locations give an indication of the range of settlement location considerations detailed above:

Aldershot and Rushmoor, Folkestone (Shorncliffe), Blandford, Maidstone, Canterbury, Brecon, Catterick. 

South East (Woolwich and Greenwich) and West (South Harrow, Southall) London, Swindon, Reading, Slough, Southampton, Birmingham, Oxford, Bournemouth.