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Overview

Yorkshire and The Humber · Unitary authority

East Riding of Yorkshire

2026/27 view

East Riding of Yorkshire · ONS E06000011

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 355,884 2024
Yorkshire and The Humber region 5,672,962
East Riding of Yorkshire represents 6.27% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+16,940 residents ↑ 5.0%
2019: 338,944 residents2020: 341,050 residents2021: 343,145 residents2022: 346,600 residents2023: 351,237 residents2024: 355,884 residents
East Riding of Yorkshire +5.0%
Yorkshire and The Humber +3.8%
England +4.3%
Growth context

East Riding of Yorkshire's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.2 percentage points above the Yorkshire and The Humber and 0.7 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 6.0 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

40.1%
11.3 5.8
2011: 10.73 µg/m³ 2012: 10.60 µg/m³ 2013: 11.35 µg/m³ 2014: 11.28 µg/m³ 2015: 9.42 µg/m³ 2016: 8.29 µg/m³ 2017: 7.80 µg/m³ 2018: 8.34 µg/m³ 2019: 8.50 µg/m³ 2020: 5.84 µg/m³ 2021: 6.33 µg/m³ 2022: 6.21 µg/m³ 2023: 6.41 µg/m³ 2024: 6.43 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 40.1%
5 years ↓ 24.3%
10 years ↓ 43.0%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

4.8% 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