Hart District

Hart
Non-metropolitan district
Fleet town centre
Hart shown within Hampshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	Hampshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Fleet
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Hart District Council
• MPs	Ranil Jayawardena Leo Docherty
Area
• Total	83.1 sq mi (215.3 km2)
• Rank	140th (of 296)
Population  (2022)
• Total	100,910
• Rank	241st (of 296)
• Density	1,200/sq mi (470/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 92.5% White 3.6% Asian 2.2% Mixed 0.8% Black 0.8% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 49.8% Christianity 41.1% no religion 5.6% not stated 1.2% Hinduism 0.8% Islam 0.6% Buddhism 0.4% other 0.3% Sikhism 0.1% Judaism
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	24UG (ONS) E07000089 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SU8047254050

Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. The district also contains the towns of Blackwater and Yateley, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

In the English indices of deprivation for 2019, Hart was ranked as the least deprived district in England;^[2] a position it had also held in the 2015 index.^[3]

For five years running (2011–2015), an annual study conducted by the Halifax bank named Hart as the UK's most desirable place to live for quality of life. The study took into account jobs, housing, health, crime, weather, traffic and broadband access. It found that in 2014 97% of people in the local authority area were in good health, and in 2011 tended to have incomes 40% above the national average.^[4][5]