Greater Willington

Greater Willington is a human settlement in North East, England.

Population

The population of Greater Willington is 6,541, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Greater Willington there are 3,267 males, and 3,274 females.

Location

Greater Willington is located at a Latitude of 54.720621 (54°43'14.23"N), and Longitude of -1.683977 (-1°41'2.32"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Greater Willington is an average of 131 metres34.

The elevation of Greater Willington ranges from a low point of about 33 metres, to a high point of about 266 metres.

Nearby to Greater Willington

Human settlements nearby to Greater Willington are Brancepeth, Lands Common to Brancepeth and Brandon and Byshottles, Brandon and Byshottles, and Spennymoor.

Woodland coverage of Greater Willington

Greater Willington has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 504.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Greater Willington

How much of Greater Willington is water? Well, Greater Willington has 0.51% water coverage, which is 25.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎