Burscough

Burscough is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Burscough is 9,275, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Burscough there are 4,501 males, and 4,774 females.

Location

Burscough is located at a Latitude of 53.609393 (53°36'33.81"N), and Longitude of -2.857552 (-2°51'27.19"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Burscough is an average of 14 metres34.

The elevation of Burscough ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 56 metres.

Nearby to Burscough

Human settlements nearby to Burscough are Lathom, Rufford, Scarisbrick, and Bispham.

Woodland coverage of Burscough

Burscough has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 50.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Burscough

How much of Burscough is water? Well, Burscough has 3.04% water coverage, which is 172.1 hectare of water5.

  1. Population values are aggregated by myself from the 178,605 census output areas in England, for the 2021 census of the United Kingdom, and are published on NOMIS official government census website. ↩︎

  2. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  3. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset I have sampled at a resolution of 13 million per degree latitude and degree longitude. In everyday terms the town of Andover, Hampshire is sampled approximately 45 thousand times. From my testing this is enough to pickup subtle changes in road elevation over small distances, such as a couple of house blocks. ↩︎

  4. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  5. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved February 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎