Tees Valley

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Tees Valley
Combined authority area
Middlesbrough, Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool and Redcar
Wordmark
Tees Valley shown within England
Coordinates: 54°36′18″N 1°15′25″W / 54.605°N 1.257°W / 54.605; -1.257
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	North East
Ceremonial counties	County Durham (north) - River Tees - North Yorkshire (south)
LEP established	2011
CA established	1 April 2016
Named for	River Tees
Administrative HQ	Cavendish House, Thornaby
Districts	List Darlington Hartlepool Middlesbrough Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees
Government [1]
• Type	Combined authority
• Body	Tees Valley Combined Authority
• Mayor	Ben Houchen (C)
Area [2]
• Total	307 sq mi (795 km2)
Population  (2022)[2]
• Total	688,756
• Rank	11th
• Density	2,240/sq mi (866/km2)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode areas	TS DL
Dialling codes	01642
GSS code	E47000006
Website	teesvalley-ca.gov.uk

Tees Valley is a combined authority area in North East England, around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley; the local term for the valley is Teesdale.^[3] The combined authority covers five council areas: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.

The town of Middlesbrough is the largest population centre in the area. The borough of Middlesbrough is the smallest of the five, at only 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi) and a population of 148,285: the Stockton-on-Tees borough (including multiple towns) is the largest with an area of 205 square kilometres (79 sq mi) and a population of 199,966, as of 2022.

From 1968 until 1974, parts of the area were included in the County Borough of Teesside council area. This was replaced by Cleveland county; it had four borough councils which became unitary authorities after the county was abolished in 1996. Darlington became a unitary authority in 1997; the five authorities formed a Local Enterprise Partnership in 2011, further collaboration between the five authorities lead to Tees Valley Combined Authority being created in 2016.