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Overview

London · London borough

Lewisham

2026/27 view

Lewisham · ONS E09000023

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 301,255 2024
London region 9,089,736
Lewisham represents 3.31% of the region's population
Five-year population change
−4,651 residents ↓ 1.5%
2019: 305,906 residents2020: 304,169 residents2021: 300,013 residents2022: 299,164 residents2023: 300,225 residents2024: 301,255 residents
Lewisham −1.5%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Lewisham's population declined over five years. Its change was 3.8 percentage points below the London and 5.8 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

9.0 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 8.5 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

40.6%
15.2 8.3
2011: 15.17 µg/m³ 2012: 13.65 µg/m³ 2013: 13.83 µg/m³ 2014: 13.37 µg/m³ 2015: 11.00 µg/m³ 2016: 12.30 µg/m³ 2017: 12.21 µg/m³ 2018: 12.36 µg/m³ 2019: 11.86 µg/m³ 2020: 10.02 µg/m³ 2021: 8.72 µg/m³ 2022: 9.40 µg/m³ 2023: 8.32 µg/m³ 2024: 9.02 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 40.6%
5 years ↓ 24.0%
10 years ↓ 32.6%
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

6.7% 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