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Overview

North West · Metropolitan district

Trafford

2026/27 view

Trafford · ONS E08000009

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 241,025 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Trafford represents 3.12% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+4,904 residents ↑ 2.1%
2019: 236,121 residents2020: 235,937 residents2021: 235,586 residents2022: 237,156 residents2023: 238,976 residents2024: 241,025 residents
Trafford +2.1%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Trafford's population grew over five years. Its change was 3.0 percentage points below the North West and 2.2 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

7.1 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.6 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

38.1%
11.5 6.9
2011: 11.48 µg/m³ 2012: 10.46 µg/m³ 2013: 10.71 µg/m³ 2014: 10.48 µg/m³ 2015: 8.20 µg/m³ 2016: 9.11 µg/m³ 2017: 7.77 µg/m³ 2018: 8.24 µg/m³ 2019: 9.22 µg/m³ 2020: 6.95 µg/m³ 2021: 7.25 µg/m³ 2022: 7.46 µg/m³ 2023: 6.90 µg/m³ 2024: 7.11 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 38.1%
5 years ↓ 22.9%
10 years ↓ 32.2%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

5.3% 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