"Local government district" redirects here. For the 19th-century districts, see Local board of health.
District
Also known as:
Local authority district Local government district
Category
Administrative district
Location
England
Found in
Counties
Created by
Local Government Act 1972 London Government Act 1963
Created
mostly 1 April 1974
and 1 April 1965
some earlier (see text)
Number
296 (as of 2022)
Possible types
Metropolitan (36)
Non-metropolitan (226)
∟ Two-tier (164) ∟ Unitary authority (62)
London borough (32)
sui generis (2)
Possible status
City
Royal borough
Borough
Populations
2,300 – 1.1 million
Areas
3 – 5,013 km2 (1 – 1,936 sq mi)
The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.[1] As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision. There are a total of 296 districts made up of 36 metropolitan boroughs, 32 London boroughs, 164 two-tier non-metropolitan districts and 62 unitary authorities, as well as the City of London and the Isles of Scilly which are also districts, but do not correspond to any of these other categories. Some districts are styled as cities, boroughs or royal boroughs; these are purely honorific titles and do not alter the status of the district or the powers of their councils. All boroughs and cities (and a few districts) are led by a mayor who in most cases is a ceremonial figure elected by the district council, but—after local government reform—is occasionally a directly elected mayor who makes most of the policy decisions instead of the council.
^"Local Authority Districts (2015) to Counties (2015) Eng lookup". ONS. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
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