Little Paxton

Little Paxton is a human settlement in Cambridgeshire, England.

Population

The population of Little Paxton is 2,661, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Little Paxton there are 1,306 males, and 1,355 females.

Location

Little Paxton is located at a Latitude of 52.250978 (52°15'3.52"N), and Longitude of -0.265053 (0°15'54.19"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Little Paxton is an average of 19 metres34.

The elevation of Little Paxton ranges from a low point of about 8 metres, to a high point of about 69 metres.

Nearby to Little Paxton

Human settlements nearby to Little Paxton are Southoe and Midloe, St. Neots, Great Paxton, and Hail Weston.

Woodland coverage of Little Paxton

Little Paxton has approximately 17% woodland coverage which is approximately 215.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Little Paxton

How much of Little Paxton is water? Well, Little Paxton has 9.02% water coverage, which is 113.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎