Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke
Stoke-on-Trent; Stoke
City and Unitary authority
	Stoke Minster Bottle Kilns Trentham Estate Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Hanley Park
	Nicknames: The Potteries, City of the Six Towns, Stoke and Stokie
	Motto: Vis Unita Fortior (united strength is stronger)
	Shown within Staffordshire
	Coordinates: 53°01′32″N 2°10′34″W / 53.0255°N 2.1761°W
OS grid reference	SJ 87951 45147
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	West Midlands
Ceremonial county	Staffordshire
County Borough established (Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall)	31 March 1910
City status	5 June 1925
Unitary authority	1 April 1998
Administrative HQ	Hanley & Stoke-upon-Trent
Areas of the city (2011 census BUASD)	List Abbey Hulton; Baddeley Green; Bentilee; Berryhill Fields; Birches Head; Blurton; Bucknall; Burslem (One of the Six Towns); Chell; Cliffe Vale; Cobridge; Dresden; Etruria; Fenton (One of the Six Towns); Florence; Goldenhill; Hanford; Hanley (One of the Six Towns); Hartshill; Hem Heath; Heron Cross; Lightwood; Longport; Longton (One of the Six Towns); Meir; Meir Heath (Village); Middleport; Milton; Normacot; Northwood; Norton le Moors (Part); Penkhull; Shelton; Sideway; Smallthorne; Sneyd Green; Stoke-upon-Trent (One of the Six Towns); Trentham; Tunstall (One of the Six Towns); Weston Coyney;
Government
• Type	Unitary authority with leader and cabinet
• Body	Stoke-on-Trent City Council
• Control	Labour
• Leader	Jane Ashworth (L)
• Lord Mayor	Lyn Sharpe
• City Director	Jon Rouse
• House of Commons	3 MPs Gareth Snell (L) ; David Williams (L) ; Allison Gardner (L) ;
Area
• Total	93.4 km2 (36.1 sq mi)
• Rank	221st
Population (2024)
• Total	259,965
• Rank	70th
• Density	2,894/km2 (7,500/sq mi)
Demonym	Stokie
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 83.5% White ; 9.9% Asian ; 2.3% Mixed ; 2.7% Black ; 1.7% other ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 45.8% Christianity ; 37.7% no religion ; 9.2% Islam ; 0.5% Hinduism ; 0.4% other ; 0.3% Buddhism ; 0.2% Sikhism ; 0.1% Judaism ; 6.4% not stated ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode area	ST1-4, 6-9, 12
Dialling code	01782
ISO 3166 code	GB-STE
GSS code	E06000021
ITL code	UKG23
• Total	£7.5 billion
• Per capita	£28,627
Website	stoke.gov.uk

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It had an estimated population of 259,965 in 2022, making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands. Stoke is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city.

The city is polycentric, formed from the federation of six towns in 1910. It took its name from the town of Stoke-upon-Trent, where the main centre of government and the principal railway station in the district were located. Hanley is the primary commercial centre. The other four towns which form the city are Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton.

As the home of the pottery industry in England, the area is known as The Potteries. It is a centre for service industries and distribution centres. It formerly had a primarily heavy industry sector.