Kensington and Chelsea local authority · 2024

What we breathe

9.4

Fine particle pollution · µg/m³

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

England: 7.1 · 2024

healthcards · Kensington and Chelsea · 2024

What this means

Kensington and Chelsea air averaged 9.4 micrograms of fine particles per cubic metre in 2024 — above the England average. Fine particles come from traffic, heating and industry.

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Recent observations (Kensington and Chelsea)

2021: 9.4
2022: 10.3
2023: 8.8
2024: 9.4

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:: Kensington and Chelsea (E09000020), 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.