South Tyneside

Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside
Metropolitan borough
Souter Lighthouse between South Shields and Whitburn
Coat of arms
Motto:  Always Ready
South Tyneside shown within Tyne and Wear
Coordinates: 54°57′32″N 1°26′17″W / 54.959°N 1.438°W / 54.959; -1.438
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	North East
Ceremonial county	Tyne and Wear
City region	North East
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Named for	River Tyne
Administrative HQ	South Shields Town Hall
Government [1]
• Type	Metropolitan borough
• Body	South Tyneside Council
• Executive	Leader and cabinet
• Control	Labour
• Leader	Tracey Dixon (L)
• Mayor	Fay Cunningham
• MPs	2 MPs Kate Osborne (L) Emma Lewell-Buck (L)
Area [2]
• Total	25 sq mi (64 km2)
• Rank	231st
Population  (2022)[3]
• Total	148,667
• Rank	148th
• Density	5,980/sq mi (2,308/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [4]
• Ethnic groups	List 94.4% White 2.9% Asian 1.4% Mixed 0.5% Black 0.8% other
Religion (2021) [4]
• Religion	List 52.6% Christianity 39.3% no religion 2.5% Islam 0.3% Sikhism 0.2% Buddhism 0.2% Hinduism 0.0% Judaism 0.4% other 4.5% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode areas	NE
Dialling codes	0191
ISO 3166 code	GB-STY
GSS code	E08000023
Website	southtyneside.gov.uk

South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear: Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the north and Newcastle upon Tyne to the north-west. The border county of Northumberland lies further north. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the County Borough of South Shields with the municipal borough of Jarrow and the urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn from County Durham.

Part of the Tyneside conurbation, the sixth largest in the United Kingdom, South Tyneside has a geographical area of 24.88 sq mi (64.4 km²) and an estimated population of 153,700 (mid-year 2010), measured at the 2011 Census as 148,127.^[5] It is bordered to the east by the North Sea and to the north by the River Tyne. A Green Belt of 9.13 sq mi (23.6 km²) is at its southern boundary.

The main administrative centre and largest town is South Shields. Other riverside towns are Jarrow and Hebburn, while the villages of Cleadon, Whitburn and The Boldons border the South Tyneside green belt, with Wearside to the south at Sunderland.

South Tyneside is represented by two Members of Parliament in two constituencies: South Shields (including Whitburn) and Jarrow and Gateshead East (which also serves Hebburn, the urban fringe villages, and the eastern parts of Gateshead).