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Overview

East of England · Non-metropolitan district

Stevenage

2026/27 view

Stevenage · ONS E07000243

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 91,774 2024
East of England region 6,576,306
Stevenage represents 1.40% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+2,233 residents ↑ 2.5%
2019: 89,541 residents2020: 89,755 residents2021: 89,360 residents2022: 89,639 residents2023: 90,567 residents2024: 91,774 residents
Stevenage +2.5%
East of England +4.8%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Stevenage's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.3 percentage points below the East of England 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.

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 1.2 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 0.6 – 6.5 µg/m³
2026-09-03 09:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 10:00:00+01: 3.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 11:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 12:00:00+01: 6.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 13:00:00+01: 6.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 14:00:00+01: 6.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 15:00:00+01: 4.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 16:00:00+01: 4.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 17:00:00+01: 3.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 18:00:00+01: 2.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 19:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 20:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 21:00:00+01: 3.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 22:00:00+01: 3.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-03 23:00:00+01: 2.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 00:00:00+01: 1.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 01:00:00+01: 1.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 02:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 03:00:00+01: 1.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 04:00:00+01: 1.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 05:00:00+01: 0.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 06:00:00+01: 0.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 07:00:00+01: 1.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-04 08:00:00+01: 1.2 µg/m³
Stevenage St Georges Way South Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Traffic Latest measurement: 2026-09-04 08:00:00+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.