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The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a local government district with borough status in Merseyside, North West England. The borough is named after its largest settlement, St Helens, but also includes neighbouring towns and villages such as Earlestown, Rainhill, Eccleston, Clock Face, Haydock, Billinge, Garswood, Rainford and Newton le Willows. The Metropolitan Borough Council is made up of 48 councillors, three representing each of the 16 wards.

The Metropolitan Borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton le Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge and Winstanley and Ashton in Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire. Between 1974 and 1986 (when it was abolished), the borough council shared functions with Merseyside County Council. After abolition, the functions of this body were in part devolved to the boroughs and in part transferred to ad hoc agencies.

The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is one of the six constituent local government districts of the Liverpool City Region. Since 1 April 2014, some of the borough's responsibilities have been pooled with neighbouring authorities and subsumed into the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. The combined authority has effectively become the top tier administrative body for the local governance of the city region, and the leader of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, along with the five other leaders from neighbouring local government districts, takes strategic decisions over economic development, transport, employment and skills, tourism, culture, housing and physical infrastructure.

The borough borders the borough of Knowsley, in the south west, the district of West Lancashire in the north, the Borough of Wigan in the north east, and to the south the boroughs of Warrington and Halton. The St Helens Borough covers roughly 30 km2 over an area of soft rolling hills used primarily for agricultural purposes, mainly arable. The highest point in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, and the whole of Merseyside, is Billinge Hill, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north from St. Helens centre. The borough is landlocked with a stream running through, Mill Brook/Windle Brook running through Eccleston and connecting with the (disused) St. Helens Branch/Section of the Sankey Canal in the town centre. The centre of St Helens is around 160 feet (50 m) above sea level. From the top of Billinge Hill the cities of Manchester and Liverpool are visible on a clear day as well as the towns of Bolton and Warrington. Carr Mill Dam is Merseyside's largest body of inland water, offering picturesque lakeside trails and walks as well as national competitive powerboating and angling events. The Burgies are two tailings on the site of the old Rushy Park coal mine. They were created by the dumping of toxic chemical waste from the manufacture of glass, they have since been covered with tall grass and woodland.

Ethnic Group200120112021Number%Number%Number% White: British 172,853 97.74% 169,346 96.59% 171,546 93.61% White: Irish 1,054 0.60% 887 0.50% 945 0.52% White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 69 0.04% 145 0.08% White: Roma 67 0.04% White: Other 880 0.50% 1,575 0.90% 4,185 2.28% White: Total 174,787 98.84% 171,887 98.05% 176,888 96.53% Asian or Asian British: Indian 409 0.23% 504 0.29% 557 0.30% Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 109 0.06% 133 0.08% 238 0.13% Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 79 0.04% 122 0.07% 172 0.09% Asian or Asian British: Chinese 398 0.23% 512 0.29% 660 0.36% Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 85 0.05% 493 0.28% 952 0.52% Asian or Asian British: Total 1,080 0.61% 1,764 1.01% 2,579 1.41% Black or Black British: African 73 0.04% 152 0.09% 558 0.30% Black or Black British: Caribbean 59 0.03% 60 0.03% 103 0.06% Black or Black British: Other Black 37 0.02% 36 0.02% 115 0.06% Black or Black British: Total 169 0.10% 248 0.14% 776 0.42% Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 228 0.13% 445 0.25% 466 0.25% Mixed: White and Black African 77 0.04% 167 0.10% 417 0.23% Mixed: White and Asian 200 0.11% 271 0.15% 597 0.33% Mixed: Other Mixed 169 0.10% 296 0.17% 491 0.27% Mixed: Total 674 0.38% 1,179 0.67% 1,971 1.08% Other: Arab 117 0.07% 377 0.21% Other: Any other ethnic group 123 0.07% 657 0.36% Other: Total 133 0.08% 240 0.14% 1,034 0.56% Black, Asian, and minority ethnic: Total 2,056 1.16% 3,431 1.96% 6,360 3.47% Total 176,843 100.00% 175,308 100.00% 183,248 100.00%

The following people, military units and Organisations and Groups have received the Freedom of the Borough of St Helens.

Lord Pilkington of St Helens: 1968. John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside: 1997. David Watts, Baron Watts: 13 May 2022. James Roby: 1 December 2023. Michael Smith: 1 December 2023. Marie Rimmer : 1 December 2023.

The Royal Military Police Association (Merseyside Branch): 29 February 2012. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 1 December 2023.

The St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 13 May 2022.