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.
Yorkshire and The Humber · Unitary authority
North East Lincolnshire
2026/27 viewNorth East Lincolnshire · ONS E06000012
Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end
PEOPLE AND PLACE
Latest official statistics Population and community profile
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%
North East Lincolnshire
+1.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber
+3.8%
England
+4.3%
Growth context
Population estimates and labour-market measures from ONS/Nomis.Official profile
AIR QUALITY
Defra 2,024
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
7.3
µg/m³
PM2.5 · 2,024
Human-related sources
6.8 µg/m³
Other sources
0.5 µg/m³
LONG-TERM TREND
35.5%
PM2.5 over time
11.7
6.3
2011
2024
Since 2011
↓ 35.5%
5 years
↓ 20.4%
10 years
↓ 37.3%
CURRENT MONITORING
UK-AIR
Latest station measurement
PM2.5
6.4 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours
3.2 –
24.8 µg/m³
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
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