Metropolitan Borough of Solihull

Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
Metropolitan borough
Solihull Council House
Coat of Arms of the Borough Council
Shown within the West Midlands and England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	West Midlands
Historic county	Warwickshire
Administrative county	West Midlands
Admin. HQ	Solihull
Government
• Type	Metropolitan borough
• Leadership:	Leader and cabinet
• MPs:	Julian Knight (C) Saqib Bhatti (C)
Area
• Total	69 sq mi (178 km2)
• Rank	153rd
Population  (2022)
• Total	217,678
• Rank	Ranked 89th
• Density	3,200/sq mi (1,200/km2)
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ISO 3166 code	GB-SOL
ONS code	00CT (ONS) E08000029 (GSS)
Ethnicity[1]	89.1% White (85.8% White British) 6.5% Asian 2.2% Mixed Race 1.5% Black 0.6% Other
Website	solihull.gov.uk

The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG32) and is one of seven boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region. Much of the large residential population in the north of the borough centres on the communities of Castle Bromwich, Kingshurst, Marston Green and Smith's Wood as well as the towns of Chelmsley Wood and Fordbridge.^[2] In the south are the towns of Shirley and Solihull, as well as the large villages of Knowle, Dorridge, Meriden and Balsall Common.

Since 2011, Solihull has formed part of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership along with neighbouring authorities Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Redditch, Tamworth and Wyre Forest.