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Overview

Yorkshire and The Humber · Metropolitan district

Sheffield

2024/25 view

Sheffield · ONS E08000039

Financial position as at 2024/25 Q4 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 582,493 2024
Yorkshire and The Humber region 5,672,962
Sheffield represents 10.27% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+26,094 residents ↑ 4.7%
2019: 556,399 residents2020: 555,036 residents2021: 555,035 residents2022: 565,987 residents2023: 575,586 residents2024: 582,493 residents
Sheffield +4.7%
Yorkshire and The Humber +3.8%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Sheffield's population grew over five years. Its change was 0.9 percentage points above the Yorkshire and The Humber and broadly in line with 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

7.3 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.8 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

36.5%
11.5 6.5
2011: 11.48 µg/m³ 2012: 10.37 µg/m³ 2013: 10.88 µg/m³ 2014: 10.58 µg/m³ 2015: 8.27 µg/m³ 2016: 8.46 µg/m³ 2017: 7.01 µg/m³ 2018: 7.40 µg/m³ 2019: 9.31 µg/m³ 2020: 6.50 µg/m³ 2021: 6.97 µg/m³ 2022: 6.90 µg/m³ 2023: 7.23 µg/m³ 2024: 7.30 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 36.5%
5 years ↓ 21.6%
10 years ↓ 31.0%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 7.0 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 0.0 – 22.0 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 13.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 10.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 22.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 15.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 3.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 0.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 17.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³
Sheffield Barnsley Road Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); UK Urban NO2 Network · 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

5.5% 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