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Overview

West Midlands · Unitary authority

Herefordshire, County of

2026/27 view

Herefordshire, County of · ONS E06000019

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 191,047 2024
West Midlands region 6,187,204
Herefordshire, County of represents 3.09% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+4,674 residents ↑ 2.5%
2019: 186,373 residents2020: 185,886 residents2021: 187,522 residents2022: 188,518 residents2023: 190,045 residents2024: 191,047 residents
Herefordshire, County of +2.5%
West Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Herefordshire, County of's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.0 percentage points below the West Midlands and 1.7 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

5.4 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 4.9 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

44.4%
10.2 4.7
2011: 9.67 µg/m³ 2012: 9.28 µg/m³ 2013: 10.18 µg/m³ 2014: 9.96 µg/m³ 2015: 8.77 µg/m³ 2016: 8.81 µg/m³ 2017: 7.65 µg/m³ 2018: 7.84 µg/m³ 2019: 8.02 µg/m³ 2020: 5.91 µg/m³ 2021: 6.14 µg/m³ 2022: 5.97 µg/m³ 2023: 4.71 µg/m³ 2024: 5.38 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 44.4%
5 years ↓ 33.0%
10 years ↓ 46.0%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
NO2 11.3 µg/m³
Provisional
Leominster Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Suburban Background 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

4.1% 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