East Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire District
Non-metropolitan district
Bishops Stortford St Michael parish church, a Grade I listed building.
East Hertfordshire shown within Hertfordshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Non-metropolitan county	Hertfordshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Hertford
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	East Herts Council
• MPs	Oliver Heald Stephen McPartland Julie Marson
Area
• Total	183.66 sq mi (475.69 km2)
• Rank	81st (of 296)
Population  (2022)
• Total	151,635
• Rank	143rd (of 296)
• Density	830/sq mi (320/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 92.3% White 2.8% Mixed 2.7% Asian 1.3% Black 0.9% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 49.1% Christianity 41.8% no religion 7.9% other 1.2% Islam
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	26UD (ONS) E07000242 (GSS)
OS grid reference	TL3758624322

East Hertfordshire is one of ten local government districts in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire. The largest town in the district is Bishop's Stortford, and the other main towns are Ware, Buntingford and Sawbridgeworth. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 137,687.^[2] By area it is the largest of the ten local government districts in Hertfordshire. The district borders North Hertfordshire, Stevenage, Welwyn Hatfield and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, and Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford in Essex.

In the 2006 edition of Channel 4's "Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK", East Hertfordshire was rated the seventh-best district to live in. In 2012, East Hertfordshire came ninth in Halifax bank's annual survey of most desirable places to live.^[3] It came first in this survey in 2020.^[4]