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Lancashire County Council

2026/27 view

Lancashire County Council · ONS E10000017

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

5.9 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.4 µg/m³
Other sources 0.4 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

40.2%
9.8 5.9
2011: 9.83 µg/m³ 2012: 9.05 µg/m³ 2013: 9.54 µg/m³ 2014: 9.30 µg/m³ 2015: 8.20 µg/m³ 2016: 7.85 µg/m³ 2017: 7.00 µg/m³ 2018: 7.38 µg/m³ 2019: 7.34 µg/m³ 2020: 6.06 µg/m³ 2021: 6.35 µg/m³ 2022: 6.81 µg/m³ 2023: 6.13 µg/m³ 2024: 5.88 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 40.2%
5 years ↓ 19.9%
10 years ↓ 36.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

4.4% 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