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North West · Unitary authority

Cheshire East

2026/27 view

Cheshire East · ONS E06000049

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 421,298 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Cheshire East represents 5.44% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+30,742 residents ↑ 7.9%
2019: 390,556 residents2020: 393,203 residents2021: 400,474 residents2022: 407,083 residents2023: 414,836 residents2024: 421,298 residents
Cheshire East +7.9%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Cheshire East's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.8 percentage points above the North West and 3.6 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

6.4 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.9 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

39.1%
10.5 6.1
2011: 10.48 µg/m³ 2012: 9.69 µg/m³ 2013: 10.16 µg/m³ 2014: 9.82 µg/m³ 2015: 8.38 µg/m³ 2016: 8.39 µg/m³ 2017: 7.09 µg/m³ 2018: 7.15 µg/m³ 2019: 8.60 µg/m³ 2020: 6.12 µg/m³ 2021: 7.40 µg/m³ 2022: 8.09 µg/m³ 2023: 6.67 µg/m³ 2024: 6.38 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.1%
5 years ↓ 25.8%
10 years ↓ 35.1%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 23.1 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 3.3 – 23.1 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 8.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 4.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 3.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 8.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 3.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 5.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 6.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 5.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 6.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 16.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 19.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 20.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 20.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 22.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 23.1 µg/m³
Crewe Coppenhall 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

4.8% 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