West Rounton

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

Population

The population of West Rounton is 284, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Rounton there are 142 males, and 142 females.

Location

West Rounton is located at a Latitude of 54.429185 (54°25'45.06"N), and Longitude of -1.365657 (-1°21'56.36"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Rounton is an average of 55 metres34.

The elevation of West Rounton ranges from a low point of about 22 metres, to a high point of about 97 metres.

Nearby to West Rounton

Human settlements nearby to West Rounton are East Rounton, Welbury, Appleton Wiske, and Picton.

Woodland coverage of West Rounton

West Rounton has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 16.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Rounton

How much of West Rounton is water? Well, West Rounton has 0.04% water coverage, which is 0.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎