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Overview

West Midlands · Unitary authority

Shropshire

2026/27 view

Shropshire · ONS E06000051

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 332,455 2024
West Midlands region 6,187,204
Shropshire represents 5.37% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+12,726 residents ↑ 4.0%
2019: 319,729 residents2020: 321,054 residents2021: 324,669 residents2022: 327,352 residents2023: 329,558 residents2024: 332,455 residents
Shropshire +4.0%
West Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Shropshire's population grew over five years. Its change was 0.5 percentage points below the West Midlands 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

5.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.0 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

41.4%
9.5 5.1
2011: 9.32 µg/m³ 2012: 8.96 µg/m³ 2013: 9.50 µg/m³ 2014: 9.22 µg/m³ 2015: 7.90 µg/m³ 2016: 8.01 µg/m³ 2017: 6.86 µg/m³ 2018: 7.18 µg/m³ 2019: 7.82 µg/m³ 2020: 5.45 µg/m³ 2021: 5.73 µg/m³ 2022: 5.81 µg/m³ 2023: 5.11 µg/m³ 2024: 5.46 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 41.4%
5 years ↓ 30.2%
10 years ↓ 40.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 30.4 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 2.2 – 30.8 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 2.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 2.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 3.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 7.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 6.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 5.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 3.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 3.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 2.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 2.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 2.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 2.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 4.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 22.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 25.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 30.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 30.4 µg/m³
Shrewsbury Underdale Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); Black Carbon · 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

4.1% 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