Kirk Ireton

Kirk Ireton is a human settlement in Derbyshire, England.

Population

The population of Kirk Ireton is 533, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kirk Ireton there are 267 males, and 266 females.

Location

Kirk Ireton is located at a Latitude of 53.045608 (53°2'44.19"N), and Longitude of -1.61127 (-1°36'40.57"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kirk Ireton is an average of 199 metres34.

The elevation of Kirk Ireton ranges from a low point of about 105 metres, to a high point of about 266 metres.

Nearby to Kirk Ireton

Human settlements nearby to Kirk Ireton are Biggin, Callow, Idridgehay and Alton, and Hognaston.

Woodland coverage of Kirk Ireton

Kirk Ireton has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 267.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kirk Ireton

How much of Kirk Ireton is water? Well, Kirk Ireton has 7.25% water coverage, which is 158.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎