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Overview

London · London borough

Waltham Forest

2026/27 view

Waltham Forest · ONS E09000031

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 279,737 2024
London region 9,089,736
Waltham Forest represents 3.08% of the region's population
Five-year population change
−1,278 residents ↓ 0.5%
2019: 281,015 residents2020: 279,527 residents2021: 278,147 residents2022: 275,847 residents2023: 278,506 residents2024: 279,737 residents
Waltham Forest −0.5%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Waltham Forest's population declined over five years. Its change was 2.7 percentage points below the London and 4.7 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

9.1 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 8.6 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

42.5%
15.9 8.5
2011: 15.86 µg/m³ 2012: 14.20 µg/m³ 2013: 14.35 µg/m³ 2014: 13.99 µg/m³ 2015: 11.59 µg/m³ 2016: 12.70 µg/m³ 2017: 12.84 µg/m³ 2018: 13.06 µg/m³ 2019: 12.77 µg/m³ 2020: 9.99 µg/m³ 2021: 8.85 µg/m³ 2022: 10.00 µg/m³ 2023: 8.48 µg/m³ 2024: 9.12 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 42.5%
5 years ↓ 28.6%
10 years ↓ 34.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

6.8% 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