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Scarborough Borough Council

Local authority area: Scarborough

Scarborough is a district council in North Yorkshire, in the North East England region of England. It covers 816.5 km² and had 108,736 residents in 2018 — about 133 people per km². It was abolished in 2023 and its services passed to North Yorkshire. The council is based in Scarborough.

Town hall in the administrative centreScarborough Town Hall
Scarborough Town Hall
Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
People

Population

Estimates recorded for Scarborough, 2012–2018.

Residents, 2018108,736+0.1% since 2012
Land area816.5km²315.2 sq mi
Density133/ km²people per square kilometre
Population estimates3 data points
108.6K107.9K108.7K
201220152018
History

How the council came to be

  1. 2023
    Abolished

    Replaced by North Yorkshire.

  2. 1974
    Created

    Scarborough became a local authority area.

Abroad

Twinned with

Osterode
Source: Wikidata Q894092 (CC0)Figures as recorded with their reference year; boundaries may have changed since.