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Overview

Yorkshire and The Humber · Metropolitan district

Calderdale

2026/27 view

Calderdale · ONS E08000033

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 210,929 2024
Yorkshire and The Humber region 5,672,962
Calderdale represents 3.72% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+3,200 residents ↑ 1.5%
2019: 207,729 residents2020: 206,976 residents2021: 206,828 residents2022: 207,896 residents2023: 209,334 residents2024: 210,929 residents
Calderdale +1.5%
Yorkshire and The Humber +3.8%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Calderdale's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.3 percentage points below the Yorkshire and The Humber and 2.7 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

6.6 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.1 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

38.8%
10.8 6.6
2011: 10.76 µg/m³ 2012: 9.78 µg/m³ 2013: 9.99 µg/m³ 2014: 9.67 µg/m³ 2015: 7.50 µg/m³ 2016: 8.64 µg/m³ 2017: 7.30 µg/m³ 2018: 7.83 µg/m³ 2019: 8.42 µg/m³ 2020: 6.71 µg/m³ 2021: 6.61 µg/m³ 2022: 7.01 µg/m³ 2023: 6.60 µg/m³ 2024: 6.59 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 38.8%
5 years ↓ 21.8%
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

4.9% 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