Sandwell
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography
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|width="45%"|Status:||Metropolitan borough
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|Region:||West Midlands
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|Ceremonial County:||West Midlands
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|Area:
- Total||Ranked 258th
85.58 km²
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|Admin. HQ:||Oldbury
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|ONS code:||00CS
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics
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|Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density||Ranked 20th
284,875
3,329 / km²
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|Ethnicity:||79.7% White
14.0% S.Asian
3.8% Afro-Carib.
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics
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|colspan=2 align=center|Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
http://www.smbc.sandwell.gov.uk/
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|Leadership:||Leader & Cabinet
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|Executive:||Labour
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|MPs:||Adrian Bailey, Sylvia Heal, John Spellar, Tom Watson
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Sandwell is a metropolitan district in the West Midlands of England.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is the local government body responsible for the administration of the borough, which is made up of the Black Country towns of Oldbury (where the council has its headquarters), Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Warley, Wednesbury and West Bromwich. Sandwell is divided into 24 wards and is represented by 72 ward councillors.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974 as a merger of the county boroughs of Warley and West Bromwich, previously in Staffordshire.
Localities
Localities in the borough include:
- Bearwood, Blackheath, Brandhall
- Cradley Heath
- Dudley Port
- Grove Vale, Guns Village
- Hamstead, Hill Top, Horseley Heath
- Langley Green
- Oakham, Ocker Hill, Oldbury, Old Hill
- Princes End
- Rowley Regis
- Sandwell, Smethwick, Summer Hill
- Tipton, Tividale
- Warley, Wednesbury, West Bromwich
- Yew Tree
See also
