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Overview

West Midlands · Metropolitan district

Walsall

2026/27 view

Walsall · ONS E08000030

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

Population and community profile

Latest official statistics
Population 295,678 2024
West Midlands region 6,187,204
Walsall represents 4.78% of the region's population
Five-year population change
+11,078 residents ↑ 3.9%
2019: 284,600 residents2020: 284,578 residents2021: 284,392 residents2022: 286,804 residents2023: 291,237 residents2024: 295,678 residents
Walsall +3.9%
West Midlands +4.5%
England +4.3%
Growth context

Walsall's population grew over five years. Its change was 0.6 percentage points below the West Midlands and broadly in line with 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

8.0 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 7.5 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

39.2%
13.2 7.9
2011: 13.21 µg/m³ 2012: 12.28 µg/m³ 2013: 12.48 µg/m³ 2014: 12.29 µg/m³ 2015: 10.52 µg/m³ 2016: 11.22 µg/m³ 2017: 10.20 µg/m³ 2018: 10.20 µg/m³ 2019: 11.07 µg/m³ 2020: 8.23 µg/m³ 2021: 8.19 µg/m³ 2022: 8.49 µg/m³ 2023: 7.85 µg/m³ 2024: 8.04 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 39.2%
5 years ↓ 27.4%
10 years ↓ 34.6%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
PM2.5 7.5 µg/m³
Provisional
Last 24 hours 3.2 – 16.5 µg/m³
2026-09-22 02:00:00+01: 16.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 03:00:00+01: 10.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 04:00:00+01: 9.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 05:00:00+01: 10.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 06:00:00+01: 11.7 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 07:00:00+01: 13.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 08:00:00+01: 14.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 09:00:00+01: 12.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 10:00:00+01: 4.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 11:00:00+01: 8.0 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 12:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 13:00:00+01: 4.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 14:00:00+01: 3.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 15:00:00+01: 3.5 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 16:00:00+01: 4.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 17:00:00+01: 4.9 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 18:00:00+01: 5.6 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 19:00:00+01: 5.3 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 20:00:00+01: 5.8 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 21:00:00+01: 7.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 22:00:00+01: 14.2 µg/m³ 2026-09-22 23:00:00+01: 14.4 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 00:00:00+01: 8.1 µg/m³ 2026-09-23 01:00:00+01: 7.5 µg/m³
Walsall Caldmore 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

6.0% 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