Dacorum

Dacorum Borough of Dacorum
Borough & Non-metropolitan district
Hemel Hempstead town centre
Coat of arms
Dacorum shown within Hertfordshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Administrative county	Hertfordshire
Founded	1 April 1974
Admin. HQ	Hemel Hempstead
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district
• Body	Dacorum Borough Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• MPs:	Gagan Mohindra Mike Penning
Area
• Total	82 sq mi (212 km2)
• Rank	141st
Population  (2022)
• Total	156,123
• Rank	Ranked 134th
• Density	1,900/sq mi (740/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 86.8% White 5.8% Asian 3.4% Mixed 2.8% Black 1.2% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 46.4% Christianity 41.1% no religion 9.4% other 3.1% Islam
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode	HP
ONS code	26UC (ONS) E07000096 (GSS)

Dacorum is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England. The council is based in Hemel Hempstead. The borough also includes the towns of Berkhamsted and Tring and surrounding villages. The borough had a population of 155,081 in 2021.^[2] Dacorum was created in 1974 and is named after the ancient hundred of Dacorum which had covered a similar area. The borough of Dacorum is the westernmost of Hertfordshire's ten districts. It borders St Albans, Three Rivers, Buckinghamshire and Central Bedfordshire.