Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local authority · 2024

What we breathe

5.9

Fine particle pollution · µg/m³

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

England: 7.1 · 2024

healthcards · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · 2024

What this means

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole air averaged 5.9 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 (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)

2021: 7.2
2022: 7.2
2023: 6
2024: 5.9

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

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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:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (E06000058), 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.

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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.