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Overview

London · London borough

Camden

2026/27 view

Camden · ONS E09000007

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 216,943 2024
London region 9,089,736
Camden represents 2.39% of the region's population
Five-year population change
−193 residents ↓ 0.1%
2019: 217,136 residents2020: 214,768 residents2021: 210,968 residents2022: 217,352 residents2023: 217,235 residents2024: 216,943 residents
Camden −0.1%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Camden's population declined over five years. Its change was 2.3 percentage points below the London and 4.3 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

9.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 9.0 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

43.3%
16.8 8.9
2011: 16.84 µg/m³ 2012: 15.09 µg/m³ 2013: 15.23 µg/m³ 2014: 14.98 µg/m³ 2015: 12.34 µg/m³ 2016: 12.01 µg/m³ 2017: 12.50 µg/m³ 2018: 12.51 µg/m³ 2019: 12.23 µg/m³ 2020: 9.75 µg/m³ 2021: 9.25 µg/m³ 2022: 10.43 µg/m³ 2023: 8.92 µg/m³ 2024: 9.55 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 43.3%
5 years ↓ 21.9%
10 years ↓ 36.2%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 5.5 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 3.7 – 12.8 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 7.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 8.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 9.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 9.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 10.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 12.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 12.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 7.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 4.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 5.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 4.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 3.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 4.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 3.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 6.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 7.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 5.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 5.5 µg/m³
London Bloomsbury Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); Non-Automatic Hydrocarbon Network · Urban Background 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

7.1% 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