| Borough of Middlesbrough | |
| Settlement Type: | Unitary authority area and borough |
| Motto: | Latin: Erimus |translation=we shall be |
| Coordinates: | 54.5757°N -1.234°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Sovereign state |
| Subdivision Name: | United Kingdom |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | England |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | North East |
| Subdivision Type3: | Ceremonial county |
| Subdivision Name3: | North Yorkshire |
| Subdivision Type4: | City region |
| Subdivision Name4: | Tees Valley |
| Established Title: | Incorporated |
| Established Date: | 1 April 1974 |
| Established Title1: | Unitary authority |
| Established Date1: | 1 April 1996 |
| Named For: | Middlesbrough |
| Seat Type: | Administrative HQ |
| Seat: | Fountain Court, Middlesbrough |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Unitary authority |
| Governing Body: | Middlesbrough Council |
| Leader Title: | Executive |
| Leader Name: | Mayor and cabinet |
| Leader Title1: | Control |
| Leader Title2: | Elected Mayor |
| Leader Name2: | Chris Cooke (L) |
| Leader Title3: | Chair |
| Leader Name3: | Julia Rostron |
| Leader Title4: | MPs |
| Area Rank: | |
| Population Rank: | |
| Demographics Type1: | Ethnicity (2021) |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Ethnic groups |
| Demographics Type2: | Religion (2021) |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Religion |
| Timezone1: | GMT |
| Utc Offset1: | +0 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | BST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +1 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postcode areas |
| Postal Code: | TS1–5, TS7–8 |
| Area Code Type: | Dialling codes |
| Area Code: | 01642 |
| Iso Code: | GB-MDB |
| Blank1 Name: | GSS code |
| Blank1 Info: | E06000002 |
The Borough of Middlesbrough is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, based around the town of Middlesbrough in the north of the county. Since 1996, its council, Middlesbrough Council, has been a unitary authority. The borough is part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. There are two parish councils in the area of the borough of Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe and Stainton and Thornton respectively.
See also: Middlesbrough Rural District and Old Town Hall, Middlesbrough. From the county's creation in 1889 (from the historic subdivision of Yorkshire) areas under Middlesbrough's governance remained part of North Riding of Yorkshire county for varing amounts of self-governance. The final iteration of this governance was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district in the county of Cleveland (the county itself governed from Middlesbrough) in 1974. Since 1996, for ceremonial purposes, the district is part of North Yorkshire as a unitary authority. Fire and Police, however, remain as well as the borough's placement in North East England instead of Yorkshire and the Humber, which large parts of North Yorkshire is in. It is included within the combined authority area of Tees Valley.
| County | Borough/ district | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Type | Dependant | Type | From | Until | Notes | |
| Yorkshire | Historic | Municipal borough | 1856 | 1889 | |||
| North Riding of Yorkshire | Geographical | County borough | 1889 | 1968 | Merged into Teesside | ||
| Cleveland (county town) | Non-metropolitan | Shire district | 1974 | 1996 | |||
| North Yorkshire | Ceremonial | Unitary authority | 1996 | ||||
The borough contains the following areas:
The borough is made up of 19 council wards (formerly 21 as Gresham ward merged with Newport ward between the 2011 and 2021 censuses) within the borough of Middlesbrough. Each ward has a non-statutory community committee.[2] There are also two statutory parish councils for "Nunthorpe" and "Stainton and Thornton".[3] East, north and west Middlesbrough as well as parts of Park End-and-Beckfield, Berwick-Hils-and-Pallister and Ladgate are covered by the Middlesbrough parliamentary constituency. South Middlesbrough as well as the other parts of the wards are covered by the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland parliamentary constituency.
The council operates a with directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. The political composition of the council, as of the May 2019 local election, is Independent 23, Labour 20; and Conservative 3.
| Party | Seats[4] [5] | Current council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Labour | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See also: Mayor of Middlesbrough.
| Name of Mayor | ||
| 1853 | Henry Bolckow | |
|---|---|---|
| 1854 | Issac Wilson | |
| 1855 | John Vaughan | |
| 1856 | Henry Thompson | |
| 1858 | John Richardson | |
| 1859 | William Fallows | |
| 1860 | George Bottomley | |
| 1861 | James Harris | |
| 1862 | Thomas Brentnall | |
| 1863 | Edgar Gilkes |
| Name of Mayor | ||
| 2002–2015 | Ray Mallon | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015–2019 | Dave Budd | |
| 2019–2023 | Andy Preston | |
| 2023– | Chris Cooke |
In 2001, as part of a wider programme of devolution, voters in Middlesbrough were offered a referendum to decide between a directly elected mayor or the cabinet system then in operation, with the traditional civic and ceremonial functions of the Mayors being transferred to the Chair of Middlesbrough Council, which they did so by a large margin.[8]
In 2002, Ray Mallon (Independent), formerly a senior officer in Cleveland Police, became Middlesbrough's first directly elected mayor. He was re-elected in 2007[9] and then in 2011.[10] Mallon chose not to stand for a fourth term in 2015 and his deputy mayor, Dave Budd (Labour) was elected to succeed him.[11] [12] Budd decided not to stand for a second term and in the May 2019 mayoral election, local businessman Andy Preston (independent) won with 59% of the vote.[13]
See main article: Demographics of Tees Valley.
The borough of Middlesbrough's total resident population was, by the The population of Middlesbrough as a county borough peaked at almost 165,000 in the late 1960s, however this has declined since the early 1980s before starting to recover in the 2010s.[14]
Women in the former Middlehaven ward (absorbed into the central ward) had the second lowest life expectancy at birth, 74 years, of any ward in England and Wales in 2016.[15] In the borough of Middlesbrough, 14.0% of the population were non-white British.
| Ethnic Group | Year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 census[16] | 2021 census[17] | ||||
| Number | % | Number | % | ||
| White Total | 126,399 | 93.7% | 118,547 | 82.3% | |
| White: British | 124,532 | 92.3% | 114,421 | 79.5% | |
| White: Irish | 726 | 434 | |||
| White: Roma | 160 | ||||
| White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller | 320 | ||||
| White: Other | 1,141 | 3,212 | |||
| Asian or Asian British Total | 6,415 | 4.7% | 15,090 | 10.5% | |
| Asian or Asian British: Indian | 846 | 2,804 | |||
| Asian or Asian British: Pakistani | 4,839 | 8,990 | |||
| Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi | 77 | 595 | |||
| Asian or Asian British: Chinese | 263 | 669 | |||
| Asian or Asian British: Other Asian | 390 | 2,032 | |||
| Black or Black British: Total | 3,816 | ||||
| Black or Black British: African | 303 | 3,339 | |||
| Black or Black British: Caribbean | 128 | 162 | |||
| Other Black | 46 | 315 | |||
| Mixed or British Mixed: Total | 1,269 | 3,001 | |||
| Mixed: White and Black Caribbean | 317 | 570 | |||
| Mixed: White and Black African | 208 | 650 | |||
| Mixed: White and Asian | 475 | 1,110 | |||
| Mixed: Other Mixed | 269 | 671 | |||
| Other: Total | 295 | 3,468 | |||
| Other: Arab | 1,452 | ||||
| Other: Any other ethnic group | 2,016 | ||||
| Non-White: Total | |||||
| Total | 134,855 | 100% | 143,922 | 100% | |
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Middlesbrough at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
| Year | Regional Gross Value Added | Agriculture | Industry | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1,115 | 8 | 377 | 729 | |
| 2000 | 1,192 | 6 | 417 | 768 | |
| 2003 | 1,538 | 6 | 561 | 971 |
includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Middlesbrough.