Borough of Hartlepool

Hartlepool Borough
Hartlepool Borough
Unitary authority area, borough
	Borough of Hartlepool
	From left to right; Top: Hartlepool Marina; Middle: Elwick and Dalton Piercy; Bottom: Seaton Carew Esplanade and Headland with St Hilda's Church;
	The borough within County Durham and England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North East England
Combined authority	Tees Valley
Ceremonial county	County Durham
Government
• Tees Valley Mayor:	Ben Houchen
• MPs:	Jill Mortimer (C)
Area
• Total	36.19 sq mi (93.72 km2)
• Rank	204th
Population (2021)
• Total	92,571
• Rank	Ranked 258th
• Density	2,600/sq mi (990/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 96.5% White ; 1.7% Asian ; 0.7% Mixed ; 0.6% other ; 0.5% Black ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 52.5% Christianity ; 40.1% no religion ; 5.1% not stated ; 1.3% Islam ; 0.3% other ; 0.2% Hinduism ; 0.2% Buddhism ; 0.2% Sikhism ; 0.1% Judaism ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code	00EB (ONS); E06000001 (GSS)
Website	www.hartlepool.gov.uk

The Borough of Hartlepool is a local government district with borough status in County Durham, England. Since 1996 Hartlepool Borough Council has been a unitary authority, which gives it both district-level and county-level functions; it is independent of Durham County Council. It is named after its largest settlement, Hartlepool, where the council is based. The borough also includes a rural area to the west of the town. The population of the borough at the 2021 census was 92,571, of which over 95% (87,995) lived in the built-up area of Hartlepool itself.

Since 2016 the council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Tees Valley Mayor since 2017. The Hartlepool constituency has been coterminous with the borough since 1983.

The neighbouring districts are the County Durham district and Stockton-on-Tees; the borough also adjoins Redcar and Cleveland across the mouth of the River Tees.

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