Yorkshire and The Humber · Unitary authority

North East Lincolnshire

2026/27 view

North East Lincolnshire · ONS E06000012

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 159,911 2024
Yorkshire and The Humber region 5,672,962
North East Lincolnshire represents 2.82% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+1,954 residents ↑ 1.2%
2019: 157,957 residents2020: 157,313 residents2021: 157,188 residents2022: 157,842 residents2023: 158,663 residents2024: 159,911 residents
North East Lincolnshire +1.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber +3.8%
England +4.3%
Growth context

North East Lincolnshire's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.6 percentage points below the Yorkshire and The Humber and 3.0 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

7.3 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 6.8 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

35.5%
11.7 6.3
2011: 11.35 µg/m³ 2012: 10.77 µg/m³ 2013: 11.74 µg/m³ 2014: 11.67 µg/m³ 2015: 11.08 µg/m³ 2016: 9.07 µg/m³ 2017: 8.32 µg/m³ 2018: 9.24 µg/m³ 2019: 9.20 µg/m³ 2020: 6.29 µg/m³ 2021: 7.43 µg/m³ 2022: 7.06 µg/m³ 2023: 7.30 µg/m³ 2024: 7.32 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 35.5%
5 years ↓ 20.4%
10 years ↓ 37.3%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 6.4 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 3.2 – 24.8 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 6.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 7.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 9.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 9.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 8.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 9.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 7.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 19.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 10.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 7.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 7.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 7.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 7.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 10.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 24.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 11.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 8.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 6.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 6.4 µg/m³
Immingham Woodlands Avenue Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) · Urban 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

5.5% 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