Borough of Rugby

Borough of Rugby
Borough and non-metropolitan district
Rugby, the largest settlement and administrative centre of the borough
Shown within Warwickshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	West Midlands
Administrative county	Warwickshire
Admin. HQ	Rugby
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan borough
• MPs:	John Slinger (Rugby) Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth and Southam)
Area
• Total	136 sq mi (351 km2)
• Rank	101st
Population  (2022)
• Total	116,436
• Rank	Ranked 208th
• Density	860/sq mi (330/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 85.7% White 7.6% Asian 2.8% Mixed 2.7% Black 1.1% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 50.5% Christianity 36.1% no religion 1.8% Islam 3.3% Hinduism 0.1% Judaism 1.4% Sikhism 0.4% Buddhism 0.5% other 5.9% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code	44UD (ONS) E07000220 (GSS)

The Borough of Rugby is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, England. The borough comprises the town of Rugby where the council has its headquarters, and the rural areas surrounding the town. At the 2021 census the borough had a population of 114,400, of which 78,125 lived in the built-up area of Rugby itself and the remainder were in the surrounding areas.

Aside from Rugby itself, more notable settlements include Binley Woods, Brinklow. Dunchurch, Long Lawford, Monks Kirby, Wolston, Wolvey and the new large development of Houlton. It includes a large area of the West Midlands Green Belt in the mostly rural area between Rugby and Coventry.

Between 2011 and 2021, the population of Rugby borough saw a 14.3% increase in population from around 100,100 in to 114,400, meaning it has had the largest percentage increase of any local authority area in the West Midlands region since 2011.^[2]

The borough extends from Coventry in the west to the borders with Leicestershire and Northamptonshire in the east, it borders the Warwickshire districts of Nuneaton and Bedworth to the north-west, Stratford-on-Avon to the south, and Warwick to the south-west. The Leicestershire districts of Hinckley and Bosworth, Blaby and Harborough are bordered to the north and north-east, whilst West Northamptonshire is bordered to the south-east.