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Overview

London · London borough

Hackney

2026/27 view

Hackney · ONS E09000012

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 266,758 2024
London region 9,089,736
Hackney represents 2.93% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+933 residents ↑ 0.4%
2019: 265,825 residents2020: 263,782 residents2021: 260,082 residents2022: 261,814 residents2023: 265,411 residents2024: 266,758 residents
Hackney +0.4%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Hackney's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.9 percentage points below the London and 3.9 percentage points below 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

9.7 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 9.1 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

43.0%
16.9 9.0
2011: 16.93 µg/m³ 2012: 15.09 µg/m³ 2013: 15.22 µg/m³ 2014: 14.93 µg/m³ 2015: 12.34 µg/m³ 2016: 12.34 µg/m³ 2017: 12.81 µg/m³ 2018: 12.90 µg/m³ 2019: 12.59 µg/m³ 2020: 10.13 µg/m³ 2021: 9.40 µg/m³ 2022: 10.59 µg/m³ 2023: 8.99 µg/m³ 2024: 9.65 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 43.0%
5 years ↓ 23.3%
10 years ↓ 35.3%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

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

Particulate air pollution

7.2% 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