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Overview

North East · Unitary authority

Redcar and Cleveland

2026/27 view

Redcar and Cleveland · ONS E06000003

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 139,228 2024
North East region 2,760,678
Redcar and Cleveland represents 5.04% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+2,529 residents ↑ 1.9%
2019: 136,699 residents2020: 136,571 residents2021: 136,605 residents2022: 137,233 residents2023: 138,115 residents2024: 139,228 residents
Redcar and Cleveland +1.9%
North East +4.7%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Redcar and Cleveland's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.9 percentage points below the North East and 2.4 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

5.3 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.0 µg/m³
Other sources 0.4 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

43.3%
9.4 5.3
2011: 9.42 µg/m³ 2012: 9.16 µg/m³ 2013: 9.37 µg/m³ 2014: 9.43 µg/m³ 2015: 6.93 µg/m³ 2016: 7.33 µg/m³ 2017: 7.35 µg/m³ 2018: 7.39 µg/m³ 2019: 7.62 µg/m³ 2020: 5.35 µg/m³ 2021: 5.87 µg/m³ 2022: 6.55 µg/m³ 2023: 5.68 µg/m³ 2024: 5.34 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 43.3%
5 years ↓ 29.9%
10 years ↓ 43.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 4.3 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 1.3 – 5.7 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 1.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 1.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 1.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 1.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 2.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 2.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 1.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 1.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 1.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 2.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 5.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 2.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 3.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 4.3 µg/m³
Redcar Milford Walk 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

4.0% 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