[6] The district was given borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.

[8] Milton Keynes remains part of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire for the purposes of lieutenancy.

In the 2024 Labour gained 4 seats to become the majority party, having previously been part of a joint Labour-Lib-Dem run administration.

According to data from the Office for National Statistics for 2017, the borough was the highest performing NUTS3 region in the UK outside inner London (which takes the first five places), on the basis of gross value added per head.

A campus of the University of Bedfordshire located in Central Milton Keynes, provides conventional undergraduate courses.

[17] The following table shows the religion of respondents in recent censuses in the city of Milton Keynes.

[4] Due to the borough's fast-growing population, the City Council plans for a minimum of 26,500 dwellings across the borough over the period between 2016 and 2031, with development primarily focused on city estates, expansion areas and strategic land locations in the south and east of Milton Keynes, Campbell Park (in CMK) and the three "Key Settlements" outside of the 1967 "designated development area" of Milton Keynes: Newport Pagnell, Woburn Sands and Olney.

These are the parishes, and the districts they contain, that are now elements of the Milton Keynes built-up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics.