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Overview

North West · Metropolitan district

Tameside Council

2026/27 view

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council · ONS E08000008

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 239,643 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Tameside Council represents 3.10% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+9,691 residents ↑ 4.2%
2019: 229,952 residents2020: 230,521 residents2021: 231,220 residents2022: 233,318 residents2023: 236,142 residents2024: 239,643 residents
Tameside Council +4.2%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Tameside Council's population grew over five years. Its change was 0.9 percentage points below the North West and broadly in line with England.

2019–2024 ONS mid-year estimates
Working-age population 151,833 63.1% of residents · 2025 North West: 62.6%
Employment rate 73.6% Apr 2025–Mar 2026 North West: 73.8%
Workless households 14.5% 10,300.0% of residents · Jan–Dec 2025 North West: 16.3% · Great Britain: 14.4%
Population estimates and labour-market measures from ONS/Nomis.Official profile
ETHNIC COMPOSITION

How residents identified their ethnic group

Broad categories reported by usual residents.

Census 2,021
White85.5%
Asian9.2%
Black2.3%
Mixed or multiple2.1%
Other ethnic group0.9%
Self-identified Census categories. Percentages may differ slightly from detailed tables because broad categories are rounded.Official ONS profile
AGE PROFILE

Population by broad age group

Latest mid-year population estimate.

2025 ONS estimate
Aged 0–1546,254 residents 19.2%
Aged 16–64151,833 residents 63.1%
Aged 65+42,735 residents 17.8%
Counts and proportions use the same 2025 ONS population estimate shown above.Official profile
ECONOMIC WELLBEING

Work and economic participation

Latest published labour-market measures for residents and households.

ONS / Nomis
Economic inactivity 23.3% 33,300 people Apr 2025–Mar 2026 North West: 22.7% · Great Britain: 20.9%
Workless households 14.5% 10,300 households Jan–Dec 2025 North West: 16.3% · Great Britain: 14.4%
Claimant count 4.8% 7,255 claimants July 2026 North West: 4.1% · Great Britain: 3.9%
Jobs per working-age resident 0.54 81,000 jobs 2024 North West: 0.82 · Great Britain: 0.85
Survey estimates can move between releases. Claimant count is administrative data; economic inactivity and workless households are survey estimates.Official labour-market profile
PER RESIDENT

Putting council figures into context

Calculated from the latest population estimate and CouncilMetrics data.

2026/27 expenditure per resident £333 2026/27 Q1 · year to date
Revenue budget per resident £2,842 2026/27 published budget
Tracked contract value per resident £11,394 246 published contracts
Residents per councillor 4,204 57 elected members
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

7.6 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 7.1 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

36.8%
12.0 7.4
2011: 12.03 µg/m³ 2012: 10.87 µg/m³ 2013: 10.94 µg/m³ 2014: 10.54 µg/m³ 2015: 8.46 µg/m³ 2016: 9.38 µg/m³ 2017: 8.06 µg/m³ 2018: 8.37 µg/m³ 2019: 9.70 µg/m³ 2020: 7.60 µg/m³ 2021: 7.67 µg/m³ 2022: 7.94 µg/m³ 2023: 7.42 µg/m³ 2024: 7.61 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 36.8%
5 years ↓ 21.5%
10 years ↓ 27.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 14.0 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 5.0 – 14.0 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 13.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 10.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 10.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 10.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 14.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 12.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 13.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 14.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 14.0 µg/m³
Tameside A635 Manchester Road Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · 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

5.7% 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