East Midlands · Non-metropolitan district

Lincoln

2026/27 view

Lincoln · ONS E07000138

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 105,114 2024
East Midlands region 5,063,164
Lincoln represents 2.08% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+1,510 residents ↑ 1.5%
2019: 103,604 residents2020: 103,531 residents2021: 102,411 residents2022: 103,026 residents2023: 104,122 residents2024: 105,114 residents
Lincoln +1.5%
East Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Lincoln's population grew over five years. Its change was 3.1 percentage points below the East Midlands and 2.8 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.

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 15.7 µg/m³
Provisional
Lincoln Canwick Road 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.