Borough of Erewash

Borough of Erewash
Non-metropolitan district and borough
Ilkeston, one of the borough's towns
Shown within Derbyshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Administrative county	Derbyshire
Founded	1 April 1974
Admin. HQ	Ilkeston and Long Eaton
Government
• Type	Erewash Borough Council
• MPs:	Pauline Latham, Maggie Throup
Area
• Total	40 sq mi (110 km2)
• Rank	189th
Population  (2022)
• Total	113,080
• Rank	Ranked 213th
• Density	2,700/sq mi (1,000/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 95.4% White 1.8% Mixed 1.6% Asian 0.8% Black 0.4% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 52.8% no religion 45.1% Christianity 1.6% other 0.5% Islam
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode	DE, NG
ONS code	17UG (ONS) E07000036 (GSS)

Erewash (/ˈɛrəwɒʃ/ ^ⓘ) is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England. The borough is named after the River Erewash. The council has offices in both the borough's towns of Ilkeston and Long Eaton. The borough also includes several villages and surrounding rural areas. Some of the built-up areas in the east of the borough form part of the Nottingham Urban Area.

Erewash Borough has military affiliations with 814 Naval Air Squadron Fleet Air Arm based at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose and the Mercian Regiment of the British Army, as the successors to the local infantry regiment the Sherwood Foresters.

The neighbouring districts are South Derbyshire, Derby, Amber Valley, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe and North West Leicestershire.