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Overview

North West · Unitary authority

Cheshire West and Chester

2026/27 view

Cheshire West and Chester · ONS E06000050

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 371,652 2024
North West region 7,737,414
Cheshire West and Chester represents 4.80% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+18,290 residents ↑ 5.2%
2019: 353,362 residents2020: 354,738 residents2021: 357,730 residents2022: 362,076 residents2023: 366,665 residents2024: 371,652 residents
Cheshire West and Chester +5.2%
North West +5.1%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Cheshire West and Chester's population grew over five years. Its change was broadly in line with the North West and 0.9 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

6.0 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.5 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

40.4%
10.1 6.0
2011: 10.08 µg/m³ 2012: 9.53 µg/m³ 2013: 9.90 µg/m³ 2014: 9.60 µg/m³ 2015: 8.45 µg/m³ 2016: 8.17 µg/m³ 2017: 7.07 µg/m³ 2018: 7.35 µg/m³ 2019: 8.21 µg/m³ 2020: 6.02 µg/m³ 2021: 7.10 µg/m³ 2022: 7.68 µg/m³ 2023: 6.14 µg/m³ 2024: 6.01 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 40.4%
5 years ↓ 26.8%
10 years ↓ 37.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

4.5% 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