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Overview

North East · Unitary authority

Darlington

2026/27 view

Darlington · ONS E06000005

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 112,489 2024
North East region 2,760,678
Darlington represents 4.07% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+5,957 residents ↑ 5.6%
2019: 106,532 residents2020: 106,827 residents2021: 108,210 residents2022: 109,461 residents2023: 110,925 residents2024: 112,489 residents
Darlington +5.6%
North East +4.7%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Darlington's population grew over five years. Its change was 0.9 percentage points above the North East and 1.3 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

5.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.1 µg/m³
Other sources 0.4 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

42.2%
9.5 5.4
2011: 9.48 µg/m³ 2012: 9.17 µg/m³ 2013: 9.03 µg/m³ 2014: 9.15 µg/m³ 2015: 6.93 µg/m³ 2016: 6.88 µg/m³ 2017: 6.84 µg/m³ 2018: 7.14 µg/m³ 2019: 6.74 µg/m³ 2020: 5.40 µg/m³ 2021: 6.14 µg/m³ 2022: 6.96 µg/m³ 2023: 5.89 µg/m³ 2024: 5.48 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 42.2%
5 years ↓ 18.7%
10 years ↓ 40.1%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 6.7 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 1.3 – 6.7 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 3.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 3.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 4.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 4.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 4.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 5.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 5.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 2.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 1.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 2.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 1.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 1.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 1.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 1.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 1.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 2.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 2.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 6.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 6.7 µg/m³
Darlington Firthmoor 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

4.1% 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