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London · London borough

Barking and Dagenham

2026/27 view

Barking and Dagenham · ONS E09000002

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 232,747 2024
London region 9,089,736
Barking and Dagenham represents 2.56% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+13,919 residents ↑ 6.4%
2019: 218,828 residents2020: 219,227 residents2021: 218,714 residents2022: 220,392 residents2023: 226,301 residents2024: 232,747 residents
Barking and Dagenham +6.4%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Barking and Dagenham's population grew over five years. Its change was 4.1 percentage points above the London and 2.1 percentage points above 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

39.5%
15.1 8.3
2011: 15.08 µg/m³ 2012: 13.69 µg/m³ 2013: 13.89 µg/m³ 2014: 13.41 µg/m³ 2015: 11.10 µg/m³ 2016: 12.75 µg/m³ 2017: 12.62 µg/m³ 2018: 13.04 µg/m³ 2019: 12.64 µg/m³ 2020: 10.00 µg/m³ 2021: 8.59 µg/m³ 2022: 9.49 µg/m³ 2023: 8.33 µg/m³ 2024: 9.13 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.5%
5 years ↓ 27.7%
10 years ↓ 31.9%
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