North West · Unitary authority

Halton

2026/27 view

Halton · ONS E06000006

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics

Population 131,543 2024

North West region 7,737,414

Five-year population change

+3,087 residents ↑ 2.4%

Halton +2.4%

North West +5.1%

England +4.3%

Growth context

Halton's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.7 percentage points below the North West and 1.8 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

6.5 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

42.0%

11.2 6.4

2011 2024

Since 2011 ↓ 42.0%

5 years ↓ 29.1%

10 years ↓ 36.4%

CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR

NO2 22.4 µg/m³

Provisional

Widnes Milton Road Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN); UK Urban NO2 Network · 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

4.9% 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