City of Wakefield

City of Wakefield
City of Wakefield
City and Metropolitan borough
	Wakefield
	From left to right; Top: Sandal Castle in Sandal and Knottingley Town Hall; Upper: Castleford Civic Centre and Pontefract Old Town Hall; Bottom: Ossett Town Hall and Wakefield Old Town Hall;
	Coat of arms of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
	Wakefield shown within West Yorkshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county	West Yorkshire
Founded	1974
Admin. HQ	Wakefield
Government
• Type	Metropolitan borough, City
• Governing body	Wakefield Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive	Labour
• MPs:	Yvette Cooper (L); Mark Sewards (L); Simon Lightwood (L); Jon Trickett (L)
Area
• Total	131 sq mi (339 km2)
• Rank	108th
Population (2024)
• Total	367,666
• Rank	Ranked 27th
• Density	2,810/sq mi (1,080/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 93% White ; 3.6% Asian ; 1.4% Mixed ; 1.3% Black ; 0.7% other ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 49% Christianity ; 41.3% no religion ; 3.2% Islam ; 5.4% not stated ; 0.4% other ; 0.4% Hinduism ; 0.2% Buddhism ; 0.1% Sikhism ; 0.1% Judaism ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ISO 3166-2	GB-WKF
ONS code	00DB (ONS); E08000036 (GSS)
NUTS	3
Website	wakefield.gov.uk

Wakefield, also known as the City of Wakefield, is a local government district with city status and a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837.

The district includes the Five Towns of Castleford, Featherstone, Knottingley, Normanton and Pontefract. Other towns include Hemsworth, Horbury, Ossett, South Elmsall and South Kirkby (also forms the civil parish of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe). The city and district are governed by Wakefield Council from the County Hall. In 2010, Wakefield was named as the UK's third most musical city by PRS for Music.