West Ayton

West Ayton is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of West Ayton is 1,026, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Ayton there are 473 males, and 553 females.

Location

West Ayton is located at a Latitude of 54.253954 (54°15'14.24"N), and Longitude of -0.494896 (0°29'41.63"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Ayton is an average of 78 metres34.

The elevation of West Ayton ranges from a low point of about 12 metres, to a high point of about 230 metres.

Nearby to West Ayton

Human settlements nearby to West Ayton are Hutton Buscel, East Ayton, Irton, and Seamer.

Woodland coverage of West Ayton

West Ayton has approximately 16% woodland coverage which is approximately 388.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Ayton

How much of West Ayton is water? Well, West Ayton has 1.74% water coverage, which is 41.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎