In one of the places I lived in in back in the 1990's, I had two lots of Muslim neighbours. One set was an older couple that pretty much kept to themselves. They smiled and said hello when you saw them in the garden or passed them in the street. The other neighbours were a young couple with children the same age as ours. We had a good relationship with them - we watched each other's houses when one of us was away. The kids played together - one of their girls and one of mine were in the same class, and they walked to and from school together. To this day, they are still friends.
Facts and figures and statistics will tell you that "a%" of the population are ethnicity "x", and "b%" of the population are religion "y", and "c%" come from country "z". They say nothing of what those people, are like, how their kids play together, who they socialise with, what they do in their spare time, what they think of us, what they are like as neighbours, friends, workmates, colleagues and acquaintances. In short, facts and figures and statistics speak nothing of how it feels to live in a place - you can only get that by living there.