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London · London borough

City of London

2026/27 view

City of London · ONS E09000001

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 15,111 2024
London region 9,089,736
City of London represents 0.17% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+6,346 residents ↑ 72.4%
2019: 8,765 residents2020: 8,331 residents2021: 8,689 residents2022: 11,615 residents2023: 13,606 residents2024: 15,111 residents
City of London +72.4%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

City of London's population grew over five years. Its change was 70.2 percentage points above the London and 68.2 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

11.0 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 10.4 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

41.6%
18.8 9.8
2011: 18.78 µg/m³ 2012: 17.04 µg/m³ 2013: 17.15 µg/m³ 2014: 16.96 µg/m³ 2015: 13.61 µg/m³ 2016: 12.57 µg/m³ 2017: 13.16 µg/m³ 2018: 13.15 µg/m³ 2019: 12.83 µg/m³ 2020: 10.23 µg/m³ 2021: 9.77 µg/m³ 2022: 11.23 µg/m³ 2023: 9.94 µg/m³ 2024: 10.96 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 41.6%
5 years ↓ 14.6%
10 years ↓ 35.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
A UK-AIR monitoring station is recorded for this council, but no current core-pollutant observation is available.
HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

8.1% 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