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Overview

South West · Non-metropolitan district

Exeter

2026/27 view

Exeter · ONS E07000041

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 138,399 2024
South West region 5,889,695
Exeter represents 2.35% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+12,087 residents ↑ 9.6%
2019: 126,312 residents2020: 127,345 residents2021: 129,527 residents2022: 134,458 residents2023: 135,708 residents2024: 138,399 residents
Exeter +9.6%
South West +4.4%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Exeter's population grew over five years. Its change was 5.2 percentage points above the South West and 5.3 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.

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
NO2 34.8 µg/m³
Provisional
Exeter Roadside Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban Traffic 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

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.