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Overview

South East · Non-metropolitan district

Maidstone

2026/27 view

Maidstone · ONS E07000110

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 187,767 2024
South East region 9,642,942
Maidstone represents 1.95% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+15,951 residents ↑ 9.3%
2019: 171,816 residents2020: 173,272 residents2021: 176,697 residents2022: 180,144 residents2023: 184,281 residents2024: 187,767 residents
Maidstone +9.3%
South East +4.9%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Maidstone's population grew over five years. Its change was 4.4 percentage points above the South East and 5.0 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.

POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL MEAN

Fine particulate matter

No annual PM2.5 estimate is currently available.
LONG-TERM TREND

PM2.5 over time

Not enough annual data is available to show a trend.
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 8.7 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 5.5 – 13.2 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 10.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 8.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 8.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 8.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 9.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 10.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 13.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 11.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 7.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 6.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 6.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 5.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 5.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 7.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 13.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 11.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 11.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 9.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 9.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 8.7 µg/m³
Maidstone Upper Stone Street Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Traffic 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

No current OHID particulate-air-pollution mortality estimate is available.
Annual PM2.5 is Defra Pollution Climate Mapping data. Monitoring readings are station-specific UK-AIR measurements and may be provisional.