Horsham District

Horsham District
Horsham District
Non-metropolitan district
	Carfax in Horsham, the district's main town
	Horsham shown within West Sussex
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	West Sussex
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Horsham
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Body	Horsham District Council
• MPs	Andrew Griffith; Jeremy Quin
Area
• Total	204.73 sq mi (530.26 km2)
• Rank	74th (of 296)
Population (2022)
• Total	148,696
• Rank	147th (of 296)
• Density	730/sq mi (280/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 93.6% White ; 2.7% Asian ; 2.1% Mixed ; 0.9% Black ; 0.6% other ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 49.3% Christianity ; 42.1% no religion ; 6.1% not stated ; 0.9% Islam ; 0.6% Hinduism ; 0.4% other ; 0.4% Buddhism ; 0.2% Judaism ; 0.1% Sikhism ;
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)

Horsham is a local government district in West Sussex, England. It is named after the town of Horsham, which is its largest settlement and where the council is based. The district also includes the surrounding rural area and contains many villages, the largest of which are Southwater and Billingshurst. The district includes part of the South Downs National Park and part of the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of High Weald. At the 2021 census the district had a population of 147,487.