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Overview

South West · Unitary authority

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

2026/27 view

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · ONS E06000058

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 408,967 2024
South West region 5,889,695
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole represents 6.94% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+8,785 residents ↑ 2.2%
2019: 400,182 residents2020: 399,564 residents2021: 400,155 residents2022: 402,784 residents2023: 406,626 residents2024: 408,967 residents
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole +2.2%
South West +4.4%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.2 percentage points below the South West and 2.1 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.

POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL MEAN

Fine particulate matter

No annual PM2.5 estimate is currently available.
LONG-TERM TREND

PM2.5 over time

Not enough annual data is available to show a trend.
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 8.0 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 1.0 – 11.0 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 1.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³
Bournemouth Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Background 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

4.4% 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.