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Overview

East Midlands · Non-metropolitan district

Oadby and Wigston

2026/27 view

Oadby and Wigston · ONS E07000135

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 61,695 2024
East Midlands region 5,063,164
Oadby and Wigston represents 1.22% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+3,923 residents ↑ 6.8%
2019: 57,772 residents2020: 57,869 residents2021: 57,788 residents2022: 58,541 residents2023: 59,826 residents2024: 61,695 residents
Oadby and Wigston +6.8%
East Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Oadby and Wigston's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.3 percentage points above the East Midlands and 2.5 percentage points above 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
PM2.5 7.5 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 3.1 – 12.4 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 5.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 5.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 6.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 7.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 11.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 12.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 10.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 6.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 3.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 4.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 4.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 3.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 4.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 5.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 6.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 9.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³
Wigston Centre 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

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.