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Overview

North West · Metropolitan district

Stockport

2026/27 view

Stockport · ONS E08000007

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 303,929 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Stockport represents 3.93% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+10,757 residents ↑ 3.7%
2019: 293,172 residents2020: 293,851 residents2021: 295,268 residents2022: 297,386 residents2023: 300,326 residents2024: 303,929 residents
Stockport +3.7%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Stockport's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.4 percentage points below the North West and 0.6 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

7.3 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

37.4%
11.6 7.1
2011: 11.64 µg/m³ 2012: 10.46 µg/m³ 2013: 10.64 µg/m³ 2014: 10.34 µg/m³ 2015: 8.26 µg/m³ 2016: 9.10 µg/m³ 2017: 7.68 µg/m³ 2018: 8.05 µg/m³ 2019: 9.40 µg/m³ 2020: 7.12 µg/m³ 2021: 7.55 µg/m³ 2022: 7.79 µg/m³ 2023: 7.11 µg/m³ 2024: 7.29 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 37.4%
5 years ↓ 22.4%
10 years ↓ 29.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
No active UK-AIR monitoring station is currently mapped to this council.
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