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Bexley

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Bexley · ONS E09000004

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics

Population 256,434 2024

London region 9,089,736

Five-year population change

+9,812 residents ↑ 4.0%

Bexley +4.0%

London +2.2%

England +4.3%

Growth context

Bexley's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.7 percentage points above the London and broadly in line with England.

2019–2024 ONS mid-year estimates

Population estimates and labour-market measures from ONS/Nomis.Official profile

AIR QUALITY

How clean is the air?

Long-term particulate pollution across the council area, alongside measurements from local UK-AIR monitoring stations.

Defra 2,024

POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL MEAN

Fine particulate matter

8.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 8.0 µg/m³

Other sources 0.5 µg/m³

Modelled population-weighted annual concentration across the local authority area. This is not a live sensor reading.

LONG-TERM TREND

PM2.5 over time

40.0%

14.2 7.8

2011 2024

Since 2011 ↓ 40.0%

5 years ↓ 25.4%

10 years ↓ 31.8%

CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR

A UK-AIR monitoring station is recorded for this council, but no current core-pollutant observation is available.

HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

6.3% of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution

2024 Not compared

This OHID measure estimates the mortality burden associated with particulate air pollution. It is a health-impact measure, not a pollution concentration.

Annual PM2.5 is Defra Pollution Climate Mapping data. Monitoring readings are station-specific UK-AIR measurements and may be provisional. Defra source