Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead

Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
Metropolitan borough
	Angel of the North
	Location in England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	North East
County	Tyne and Wear
Admin. HQ	Gateshead
Government
• MPs	Ian Mearns (L); Liz Twist (L)
Area
• Total	55 sq mi (142 km2)
• Rank	168th
Population (2022)
• Total	197,722
• Rank	Ranked 99th
• Density	3,600/sq mi (1,400/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 93.5% White ; 2.5% Asian ; 1.6% other ; 1.2% Mixed ; 1.1% Black ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 50.8% Christianity ; 40.1% no religion ; 4.5% not stated ; 2.1% Islam ; 1.5% Judaism ; 0.4% other ; 0.3% Hinduism ; 0.2% Buddhism ; 0.2% Sikhism ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code	00CH (ONS); E08000037 (GSS)

The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It includes Gateshead, Rowlands Gill, Whickham, Blaydon, Ryton, Felling, Birtley, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell. The borough forms part of the Tyneside conurbation, centred on Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census, the borough had a population of 196,154.

It is bordered by the local authority areas of Newcastle upon Tyne to the north, Northumberland to the west, County Durham to the south, Sunderland to the south-east, and South Tyneside to the east. The council is a constituent member of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority.