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Overview

North West · Metropolitan district

Liverpool

2026/27 view

Liverpool · ONS E08000012

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 508,961 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Liverpool represents 6.58% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+24,274 residents ↑ 5.0%
2019: 484,687 residents2020: 483,348 residents2021: 485,022 residents2022: 493,693 residents2023: 503,216 residents2024: 508,961 residents
Liverpool +5.0%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Liverpool's population grew over five years. Its change was broadly in line with the North West and 0.8 percentage points above 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

6.7 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.2 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

39.1%
11.0 6.7
2011: 10.98 µg/m³ 2012: 10.09 µg/m³ 2013: 10.25 µg/m³ 2014: 10.02 µg/m³ 2015: 8.07 µg/m³ 2016: 9.67 µg/m³ 2017: 8.50 µg/m³ 2018: 9.33 µg/m³ 2019: 9.26 µg/m³ 2020: 7.90 µg/m³ 2021: 7.73 µg/m³ 2022: 8.09 µg/m³ 2023: 6.67 µg/m³ 2024: 6.69 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.1%
5 years ↓ 27.7%
10 years ↓ 33.2%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 16.0 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 11.0 – 45.0 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 16.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 16.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 14.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 15.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 15.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 20.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 15.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 38.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 41.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 30.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 45.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 33.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 32.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 16.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 17.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 20.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 17.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 21.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 22.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 19.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 17.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 16.0 µg/m³
Liverpool Speke Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); Non-Automatic Hydrocarbon Network; PAH Digitel (solid phase) · Urban Industrial 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

5.0% 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