Whixley

Whixley is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Whixley is 829, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whixley there are 426 males, and 403 females.

Location

Whixley is located at a Latitude of 54.015697 (54°0'56.51"N), and Longitude of -1.32809 (-1°19'41.12"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whixley is an average of 37 metres34.

The elevation of Whixley ranges from a low point of about 7 metres, to a high point of about 74 metres.

Nearby to Whixley

Human settlements nearby to Whixley are Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Little Ouseburn, Green Hammerton, and Kirby Hall.

Woodland coverage of Whixley

Whixley has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 16.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whixley

How much of Whixley is water? Well, Whixley has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎