Buckfastleigh

Buckfastleigh is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Buckfastleigh is 3,571, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Buckfastleigh there are 1,782 males, and 1,789 females.

Location

Buckfastleigh is located at a Latitude of 50.480027 (50°28'48.10"N), and Longitude of -3.777305 (-3°46'38.30"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Buckfastleigh is an average of 72 metres34.

The elevation of Buckfastleigh ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 212 metres.

Nearby to Buckfastleigh

Human settlements nearby to Buckfastleigh are Staverton, Dean Prior, Rattery, and West Buckfastleigh.

Woodland coverage of Buckfastleigh

Buckfastleigh has approximately 11% woodland coverage which is approximately 153.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Buckfastleigh

How much of Buckfastleigh is water? Well, Buckfastleigh has 0.59% water coverage, which is 8.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎