Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2024

Room to breathe

5.3%

Deaths linked to particle pollution.

Air pollution: estimated fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution · Persons, 30+ yrs

England: 5.3% · 2024

healthcards · Kirklees · 2024

What this means

An estimated 5.3% of deaths among people aged 30 and over in Kirklees are linked to fine particle pollution (PM2.5). It is a modelled estimate, not a count of death certificates.

Huddersfield is a town, not a statistical area: these figures are for Kirklees local authority as a whole (which includes Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley and surrounding towns). Treat them as the wider-area picture, not street-level results.

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

Recent observations (Kirklees)

2021: 5.2%
2022: 5.3%
2023: 5.2%
2024: 5.3%

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: estimated fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution (ID 93861)
Source:: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Area:: Kirklees (E08000034), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:: 2024; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:: Persons, 30+ yrs

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Caveats

Modelled estimate combining pollution maps with death rates — not directly counted deaths.
No confidence intervals published; small year-to-year moves may be modelling noise.
Lower means a smaller estimated share of deaths linked to pollution.

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