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Devon County Council

2026/27 view

Devon County Council · ONS E10000008

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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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

5.1 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 4.4 µg/m³
Other sources 0.7 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

45.1%
9.3 3.9
2011: 9.32 µg/m³ 2012: 8.43 µg/m³ 2013: 9.09 µg/m³ 2014: 8.62 µg/m³ 2015: 7.95 µg/m³ 2016: 8.11 µg/m³ 2017: 7.33 µg/m³ 2018: 6.46 µg/m³ 2019: 7.10 µg/m³ 2020: 6.21 µg/m³ 2021: 6.18 µg/m³ 2022: 3.88 µg/m³ 2023: 5.23 µg/m³ 2024: 5.12 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 45.1%
5 years ↓ 28.0%
10 years ↓ 40.6%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
No active UK-AIR monitoring station is currently mapped to this council.
HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

3.9% 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