Westmorland and Furness local authority · 2024

What we breathe

4.7

Fine particle pollution · µg/m³

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

England: 7.1 · 2024

healthcards · Westmorland and Furness · 2024

What this means

Westmorland and Furness air averaged 4.7 micrograms of fine particles per cubic metre in 2024 — below the England average. Fine particles come from traffic, heating and industry.

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Recent observations (Westmorland and Furness)

2023: 4.7
2024: 4.7

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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:: Westmorland and Furness (E06000064), 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.