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Overview

London · London borough

Southwark

2026/27 view

Southwark · ONS E09000028

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 314,786 2024
London region 9,089,736
Southwark represents 3.46% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+2,195 residents ↑ 0.7%
2019: 312,591 residents2020: 312,055 residents2021: 306,762 residents2022: 309,327 residents2023: 313,485 residents2024: 314,786 residents
Southwark +0.7%
London +2.2%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Southwark's population grew over five years. Its change was 1.5 percentage points below the London and 3.5 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

9.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 9.0 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

42.3%
16.5 8.9
2011: 16.49 µg/m³ 2012: 14.83 µg/m³ 2013: 15.01 µg/m³ 2014: 14.58 µg/m³ 2015: 12.02 µg/m³ 2016: 12.35 µg/m³ 2017: 12.57 µg/m³ 2018: 12.69 µg/m³ 2019: 12.24 µg/m³ 2020: 10.12 µg/m³ 2021: 9.22 µg/m³ 2022: 10.31 µg/m³ 2023: 8.90 µg/m³ 2024: 9.51 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 42.3%
5 years ↓ 22.3%
10 years ↓ 34.8%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
A UK-AIR monitoring station is recorded for this council, but no current core-pollutant observation is available.
HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

7.1% 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