Sutton Four Oaks
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Sutton Four Oaks is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
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Sutton Four Oaks is one of the four wards that make up the Parliamentary Constituency
Sutton Coldfield (UK Parliament constituency)
Sutton Coldfield is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

 and council constituency of Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

. The ward lies to the north of Sutton Coldfield town centre and covers Hill Hook
Hill Hook
Hill Hook is an area of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England.The area includes Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve, declared in 2003 with an area of 5.65 hectares, which is on the site of a watermill built in the 17th century. An earlier dam showed the extent of the original mill pool, which was...

, Hill Wood, Roughley
Roughley
Roughley is a part of Sutton Coldfield, which is in Birmingham in the West Midlands. It is north of Sutton Coldfield close to Mere Green and Four Oaks.- Transport :...

, Doe Bank, Ley Hill, Four Oaks, Four Oaks Park and Mere Green
Mere Green, Birmingham
Mere Green is an area of Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. It is a small commercial centre on the edge of Sutton Park. The area features a shopping area, which has a range of independent shops, along with national chain stores...

. Mere Green is the main shopping area for the ward and also has the ward's only library.

It covers an area of 19.61 square kilometres (7.6 sq mi).

Population

According to the 2001 Population Census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 there were 21,690 people living in 9,274 households in Sutton Four Oaks. 4.9% (1,068) of the ward's population consisted of ethnic minorities compared to 29.6% for Birmingham in general.

Politics

The three councillors representing Sutton Four Oaks on Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council
The Birmingham City Council is the body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974. It is the most populated local authority in the United Kingdom with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 Birmingham...

 are Maureen Cornish, Peter Howard and Anne Underwood, all of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

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Sutton Four Oaks has adopted a Ward Support Officer with the current holder of the title being Rebecca Grant.

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