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Overview

South West · Non-metropolitan district

East Devon

2026/27 view

East Devon · ONS E07000040

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 158,239 2024
South West region 5,889,695
East Devon represents 2.69% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+10,893 residents ↑ 7.4%
2019: 147,346 residents2020: 148,592 residents2021: 152,065 residents2022: 154,307 residents2023: 156,378 residents2024: 158,239 residents
East Devon +7.4%
South West +4.4%
England +4.3%
Growth context

East Devon's population grew over five years. Its change was 3.0 percentage points above the South West and 3.1 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.

POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL MEAN

Fine particulate matter

No annual PM2.5 estimate is currently available.
LONG-TERM TREND

PM2.5 over time

Not enough annual data is available to show a trend.
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 4.4 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 1.6 – 4.9 µg/m³
2026-09-21 14:00:00+01: 3.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 15:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 16:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 17:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 18:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 19:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 20:00:00+01: 4.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 21:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 22:00:00+01: 4.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-21 23:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 00:00:00+01: 3.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 01:00:00+01: 4.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 4.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 3.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 2.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 2.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 2.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 2.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 1.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 2.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 2.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 3.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 4.4 µg/m³
Honiton Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Background Latest measurement: 2026-09-22 13:00:00+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

No current OHID particulate-air-pollution mortality estimate is available.
Annual PM2.5 is Defra Pollution Climate Mapping data. Monitoring readings are station-specific UK-AIR measurements and may be provisional.