Skip to content

Bath and North East Somerset local authority · 2024

What we breathe

6.1

Fine particle pollution · µg/m³

Air pollution: fine particulate matter (concentrations of total PM2.5) · modelled average

England: 7.1 · 2024

healthcards · Bath and North East Somerset · 2024

What this means

Bath and North East Somerset air averaged 6.1 micrograms of fine particles per cubic metre in 2024 — below the England average. Fine particles come from traffic, heating and industry.

Fingertips marks this indicator Not compared to England — shown for context only.

Recent observations (Bath and North East Somerset)

  1. 2021: 7
  2. 2022: 6.8
  3. 2023: 5.8
  4. 2024: 6.1

These points share an indicator, sex, age and period type. Source-method changes and overlapping pooled periods can limit comparisons; see the caveats.

Share this card

Share a link or download an image to post or send. Each image includes the area, reporting period, statistic and source.

/bath-and-north-east-somerset/cards/pm25-level

Source & provenance

Indicator:
Air pollution: fine particulate matter (concentrations of total PM2.5) (ID 93867)
Source:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), modelled by Ricardo
Area:
Bath and North East Somerset (E06000022), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2024; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
modelled average
Note:
Population-weighted annual average; modelled.

View source ↗

Caveats

  • Modelled from monitoring plus maps, weighted by where people live — not one street's reading.
  • There is no known safe threshold: lower is better all the way down.
  • Lower means cleaner air on average.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.