City of Doncaster

City of Doncaster
Metropolitan borough and city
Doncaster Minster
Doncaster shown within South Yorkshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county	South Yorkshire
Admin. HQ	Civic Office, Waterdale
Government
• Type	City and metropolitan district council
• Body	City of Doncaster Council
• Leadership:	Mayor and cabinet
• Mayor	Ros Jones (L)
• MPs:	Nick Fletcher (C), Ed Miliband (L), Rosie Winterton (L)
Area
• Total	219 sq mi (568 km2)
• Rank	68th
Population  (2022)
• Total	311,027
• Rank	Ranked 43rd
• Density	1,400/sq mi (550/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 93.1% White 2.9% Asian 1.5% Mixed 1.2% Black 1.2% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 50.9% Christianity 39.8% no religion 5.3% not stated 2.2% Islam 0.6% other 0.5% Sikhism 0.4% Hinduism 0.3% % Buddhism 0.1% Judaism
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Area code(s)	01302, 01405, 01709, 01977
ONS code	00CE (ONS) E08000017 (GSS)
Website	doncaster.gov.uk

The City of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England.^[2][3][4] It is named after its principal settlement, Doncaster, and includes the surrounding suburbs of Doncaster as well as numerous towns and villages. The district has large amounts of countryside; at 219 square miles (570 km²), it is the largest metropolitan borough in England by area.

The largest settlement in the borough are Doncaster itself, followed by the towns of Thorne, Hatfield and Mexborough (the latter of which is part of the Barnsley/Dearne Valley built-up area), and it additionally covers the towns of Conisbrough, Stainforth, Bawtry, Askern, Edlington and Tickhill.

Doncaster borders North Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, North Lincolnshire to the east, Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire to the south-east, Rotherham to the south-west, Barnsley to the west, and Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to the north-west. It is part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region.

The borough was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former County Borough of Doncaster, the urban districts of Adwick-le-Street, Bentley with Arksey, Conisbrough, Mexborough, and Tickhill, Doncaster and Thorne rural districts, and the parish of Finningley from East Retford Rural District and small parts of the parish of Harworth from Worksop Rural District from Nottinghamshire.