Redcar and Cleveland

Borough of Redcar and Cleveland
Unitary authority area and borough
Eston Nab Saltburn The Beacon Gisborough Priory Skelton Castle
Coat of arms
Motto:  United We Endeavour
Redcar and Cleveland shown within North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°34′45″N 1°02′03″W / 54.57923°N 1.03409°W / 54.57923; -1.03409
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	North East
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
City region	Tees Valley
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Unitary authority	1 April 1996
Named for	Redcar and Cleveland
Administrative HQ	Redcar
Government [1]
• Type	Unitary authority
• Body	Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
• Executive	Leader and cabinet
• Control	No overall control
• Leader	Alec Brown (L)
• Mayor	Neil Bendelow
• MPs	2 MPs Luke Myer (L) Anna Turley (L)
Area [2]
• Total	95 sq mi (245 km2)
• Rank	135th
Population  (2022)[3]
• Total	137,175
• Rank	170th
• Density	1,500/sq mi (560/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [4]
• Ethnic groups	List 97.7% White 0.9% Mixed 0.8% Asian 0.4% other 0.2% Black
Religion (2021) [4]
• Religion	List 53.0% Christianity 40.2% no religion 0.7% Islam 0.2% Buddhism 0.1% Hinduism 0.1% Sikhism 0.0% Judaism 0.4% other 5.3% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode areas	TS
Dialling codes	01287
ISO 3166 code	GB-RCC
GSS code	E06000003
Website	redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

Redcar and Cleveland is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Its council has been a unitary authority since 1996, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council.

The borough was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh, and was one of four boroughs in the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland. It was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees in 1988, and given its present name when Cleveland was abolished in 1996; the borough was made a unitary authority in the same year. Redcar and Cleveland is part of the Tees Valley combined authority, which also includes the boroughs of Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees; the latter three were also formerly in Cleveland.

Its main settlement is the town of Redcar. Other notable towns and villages include South Bank, Eston, Brotton, Guisborough, Greater Eston, Loftus, Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Skelton. The borough had a population of 135,200 in 2011.^[5]