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Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2024

Kirklees, let’s clear the air.

0.5%

lower PM2.5 concentration than England.

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

Kirklees: 7.02 · England: 7.06 µg/m³

Modelled annual average. Numerical difference, not a significance claim.

healthcards · Kirklees · 2024

What this means

Kirklees had 0.5% lower modelled annual PM2.5 concentration than England in 2024. Kirklees: 7.02 · England: 7.06 µg/m³. This measures fine particles, not overall air cleanliness or an individual's exposure.

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.

Modelled annual average. Numerical difference, not a significance claim.

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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:
Kirklees (E08000034), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2024; retrieved 2026-10-10 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
modelled average
Note:
Population-weighted annual average; modelled.

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Caveats

  • Modelled annual average. Numerical difference, not a significance claim.
  • 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.
  • Calculated from unrounded observations with the same indicator, age, sex and reporting period. Displayed inputs are rounded.
  • Formula: 100 × (local concentration / England concentration − 1). England includes this area.
  • 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.