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Overview

North East · Metropolitan district

South Tyneside

2026/27 view

South Tyneside · ONS E08000023

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 151,393 2024
North East region 2,760,678
South Tyneside represents 5.48% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+3,025 residents ↑ 2.0%
2019: 148,368 residents2020: 147,919 residents2021: 147,919 residents2022: 148,987 residents2023: 150,124 residents2024: 151,393 residents
South Tyneside +2.0%
North East +4.7%
England +4.3%
Growth context

South Tyneside's population grew over five years. Its change was 2.7 percentage points below the North East and 2.2 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

6.2 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.8 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

39.2%
10.2 5.6
2011: 10.17 µg/m³ 2012: 9.62 µg/m³ 2013: 9.77 µg/m³ 2014: 9.88 µg/m³ 2015: 7.27 µg/m³ 2016: 6.95 µg/m³ 2017: 7.10 µg/m³ 2018: 7.03 µg/m³ 2019: 6.67 µg/m³ 2020: 5.58 µg/m³ 2021: 7.22 µg/m³ 2022: 8.25 µg/m³ 2023: 6.71 µg/m³ 2024: 6.19 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.2%
5 years ↓ 7.2%
10 years ↓ 37.4%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
No active UK-AIR monitoring station is currently mapped to this council.
HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

4.7% 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