Today, Peterborough is a multi-cultural city, with significant Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Italian communities. As of 2005, the city had an estimated population of just under 165,000 with the estimated population of the entire Greater Peterborough area being well over half a million. The diversity of the City has increased in recent years. A recent wave of immigration from eastern Europe has seen over 10,000 mainly Poles, Czechs and Slovaks settle in Peterborough.