Highampton

Highampton is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Highampton is 384, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Highampton there are 182 males, and 202 females.

Location

Highampton is located at a Latitude of 50.816948 (50°49'1.01"N), and Longitude of -4.13876 (-4°8'19.53"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Highampton is an average of 101 metres34.

The elevation of Highampton ranges from a low point of about 34 metres, to a high point of about 178 metres.

Nearby to Highampton

Human settlements nearby to Highampton are Sheepwash, Black Torrington, Northlew, and Hatherleigh.

Woodland coverage of Highampton

Highampton has approximately 14% woodland coverage which is approximately 559.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Highampton

How much of Highampton is water? Well, Highampton has 0.07% water coverage, which is 2.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎