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Overview

West Midlands · Metropolitan district

Birmingham

2026/27 view

Birmingham · ONS E08000025

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 1,183,618 2024
West Midlands region 6,187,204
Birmingham represents 19.13% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+32,972 residents ↑ 2.9%
2019: 1,150,646 residents2020: 1,148,692 residents2021: 1,143,285 residents2022: 1,153,593 residents2023: 1,170,238 residents2024: 1,183,618 residents
Birmingham +2.9%
West Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Birmingham's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.6 percentage points below the West Midlands and 1.4 percentage points below 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

7.9 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 7.4 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

39.6%
13.1 7.7
2011: 13.06 µg/m³ 2012: 12.16 µg/m³ 2013: 12.49 µg/m³ 2014: 12.22 µg/m³ 2015: 10.10 µg/m³ 2016: 11.24 µg/m³ 2017: 10.28 µg/m³ 2018: 10.19 µg/m³ 2019: 10.85 µg/m³ 2020: 8.39 µg/m³ 2021: 8.29 µg/m³ 2022: 8.60 µg/m³ 2023: 7.73 µg/m³ 2024: 7.89 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.6%
5 years ↓ 27.2%
10 years ↓ 35.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 13.3 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 4.0 – 13.3 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 4.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 6.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 6.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 6.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 8.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 8.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 4.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 4.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 5.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 5.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 5.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 5.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 6.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 8.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 10.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 13.3 µg/m³
Birmingham A4540 Roadside Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); Black Carbon; Non-Automatic Hydrocarbon Network; UK Urban NO2 Network · Urban Traffic Latest measurement: 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01

This is a measurement from an individual monitoring station and should not be interpreted as the current concentration across the whole council area.

HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

5.9% 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