Redcar is a
seaside resort and town in the
Tees Valley in
North Yorkshire, England. The local council, a
unitary authority, is
Redcar and Cleveland.
Historically part of the
North Riding of Yorkshire, it lies east-north-east of
Middlesbrough by the
North Sea coast. The combined population of the wards of
Coatham,
Dormanstown,
Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke and Zetland was 36,610 in the
2001 census decreasing to 35,692 in the
2011 census.