Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham

Borough of Rotherham
Metropolitan borough
From left to right Top: The Town Hall and Spire of the Minster in Rotherham Upper: Rotherham townscape and Dinnington town skyline Lower: Wath upon Dearne town centre and St Margaret Church in Swinton Bottom: Countryside looking towards South Anston and Rawmarsh village centre
Coat of arms of the Borough Council
Nickname:  The Heart of SY
Motto:  Where everyone matters
Rotherham shown within South Yorkshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county	South Yorkshire
Founded	1974
Admin. HQ	Rotherham
Government
• Type	Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive:	Labour
• MPs:	Alexander Stafford (Con), John Healey (Lab), Sarah Champion (Lab)
Area
• Total	111 sq mi (287 km2)
• Rank	122nd
Population  (2022)
• Total	268,354
• Rank	Ranked 64th
• Density	2,400/sq mi (940/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 91% White 5.3% Asian 1.4% Mixed 1.1% Black 1.1% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 49% Christianity 39.8% no religion 5.2% not stated 5.1% Islam 0.4% other 0.3% Hinduism 0.2% % Buddhism 0.2% Sikhism 0.1% Judaism
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ISO 3166-2	GB-ROT
ONS code	00CF (ONS) E08000018 (GSS)
Website	rotherham.gov.uk

The Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. It is named after its main settlement of Rotherham. The wider borough spans a larger area and covers the outlying towns of Maltby, Swinton, Wath-upon-Dearne, Dinnington. As well as the villages of Rawmarsh and Laughton. A large valley spans the entire borough and is referred to as the "Rother Valley".

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the County Borough of Rotherham, with Maltby, Rawmarsh, Swinton and Wath-upon-Dearne urban districts along with Rotherham Rural District and Kiveton Park Rural District.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is one of the safest Labour councils in the United Kingdom, although the number of Labour council seats dropped from 92% to 79% in 2014 following the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal.^[2]