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Overview

North West · Metropolitan district

Rochdale

2026/27 view

Rochdale · ONS E08000005

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 235,561 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Rochdale represents 3.04% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+13,519 residents ↑ 6.1%
2019: 222,042 residents2020: 223,024 residents2021: 224,127 residents2022: 227,715 residents2023: 231,217 residents2024: 235,561 residents
Rochdale +6.1%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Rochdale's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.0 percentage points above the North West and 1.8 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

7.1 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.6 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%
11.6 7.0
2011: 11.62 µg/m³ 2012: 10.54 µg/m³ 2013: 10.59 µg/m³ 2014: 10.34 µg/m³ 2015: 8.08 µg/m³ 2016: 8.87 µg/m³ 2017: 7.68 µg/m³ 2018: 8.03 µg/m³ 2019: 8.71 µg/m³ 2020: 6.96 µg/m³ 2021: 7.13 µg/m³ 2022: 7.67 µg/m³ 2023: 7.16 µg/m³ 2024: 7.08 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.1%
5 years ↓ 18.7%
10 years ↓ 31.5%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 16.8 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 4.5 – 16.8 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 12.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 11.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 12.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 8.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 8.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 13.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 15.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 9.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 10.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 14.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 13.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 8.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 8.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 6.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 4.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 5.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 6.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 11.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 14.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 16.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 16.8 µg/m³
Rochdale Belfield 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

5.3% 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