The district also includes the towns of Kenilworth and Whitnash and surrounding villages and rural areas.

Leamington Spa, Warwick and Whitnash form a conurbation which has about two thirds of the district's population.

[8] The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

[17] The council has its main offices at Riverside House on Milverton Hill in Leamington, close to the River Leam.

[18] Plans are being considered to move the council's main offices nearer to the town centre of Leamington Spa; various schemes have been proposed since 2016, but none has yet to come to fruition.

[23] On 26 February the full council unanimously agreed the proposal, triggering the 7 May referendum,[24] – which was put back to 6 May 2021, due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

National Health Service general healthcare is provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and mental health care by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.

The site is expected to be capable of processing "hundreds of thousands of samples a day".

Social services and fostering are dealt with on a countywide basis by Warwickshire County Council.