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Overview

East Midlands · Unitary authority

Nottingham

2026/27 view

Nottingham · ONS E06000018

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 331,077 2024
East Midlands region 5,063,164
Nottingham represents 6.54% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+7,917 residents ↑ 2.4%
2019: 323,160 residents2020: 322,822 residents2021: 319,978 residents2022: 326,572 residents2023: 327,186 residents2024: 331,077 residents
Nottingham +2.4%
East Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Nottingham's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.1 percentage points below the East Midlands and 1.8 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

7.7 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 7.2 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

41.2%
13.1 7.7
2011: 13.07 µg/m³ 2012: 12.25 µg/m³ 2013: 12.69 µg/m³ 2014: 12.56 µg/m³ 2015: 10.39 µg/m³ 2016: 11.35 µg/m³ 2017: 10.37 µg/m³ 2018: 9.53 µg/m³ 2019: 10.56 µg/m³ 2020: 7.68 µg/m³ 2021: 7.96 µg/m³ 2022: 9.10 µg/m³ 2023: 8.15 µg/m³ 2024: 7.69 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 41.2%
5 years ↓ 27.2%
10 years ↓ 38.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 5.8 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 2.7 – 11.9 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 3.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 3.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 4.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 4.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 5.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 7.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 8.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 11.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 7.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 3.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 3.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 2.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 4.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 5.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 6.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³
Nottingham Bilborough Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Background 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

5.7% 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