Shaw and Crompton

Shaw and Crompton is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Shaw and Crompton is 20,374, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shaw and Crompton there are 9,870 males, and 10,504 females.

Location

Shaw and Crompton is located at a Latitude of 53.583194 (53°34'59.50"N), and Longitude of -2.090128 (-2°5'24.46"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shaw and Crompton is an average of 205 metres34.

The elevation of Shaw and Crompton ranges from a low point of about 143 metres, to a high point of about 397 metres.

Nearby to Shaw and Crompton

Human settlements nearby to Shaw and Crompton are Saddleworth, Mossley, Whitworth, and Ripponden.

Woodland coverage of Shaw and Crompton

Shaw and Crompton has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 100.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shaw and Crompton

How much of Shaw and Crompton is water? Well, Shaw and Crompton has 0.25% water coverage, which is 8.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎