Stratford-on-Avon District

Stratford-on-Avon District
Non-metropolitan district
River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon
Shown within Warwickshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	West Midlands
Administrative county	Warwickshire
Admin. HQ	Stratford-upon-Avon
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district
• MPs:	Manuela Perteghella (LD) Jeremy Wright (C)
Area
• Total	378 sq mi (978 km2)
• Rank	27th
Population  (2022)
• Total	138,583
• Rank	Ranked 169th
• Density	370/sq mi (140/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 95.5% White 1.9% Asian 1.7% Mixed 0.5% other 0.4% Black
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 56.4% Christianity 35.9% no religion 0.5% Islam 0.5% Hinduism 0.1% Judaism 0.4% Sikhism 0.3% Buddhism 0.4% other 5.5% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code	44UE (ONS) E07000221 (GSS)

Stratford-on-Avon is a local government district in Warwickshire, England. The district is named after its largest town of Stratford-upon-Avon, but with a change of preposition; the town uses "upon" and the district uses "on". The council is based in Stratford-upon-Avon and the district, which is predominantly rural, also includes the towns of Alcester, Henley-in-Arden, Shipston-on-Stour and Southam, and the large villages of Bidford-on-Avon, Studley and Wellesbourne, plus numerous other smaller villages and hamlets and surrounding rural areas. The district covers the more sparsely populated southern part of Warwickshire, and contains nearly half the county's area. The district includes part of the Cotswolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The neighbouring districts are Rugby and Warwick in Warwickshire, Solihull in the West Midlands, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wychavon in Worcestershire, Cotswold in Gloucestershire, West Oxfordshire and Cherwell in Oxfordshire, and West Northamptonshire.