Houghton Le Side

Houghton le Side is a human settlement in North East, England.

Population

The population of Houghton le Side is 250, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Houghton le Side there are 121 males, and 129 females.

Location

Houghton le Side is located at a Latitude of 54.590462 (54°35'25.66"N), and Longitude of -1.663137 (-1°39'47.29"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Houghton le Side is an average of 138 metres34.

The elevation of Houghton le Side ranges from a low point of about 100 metres, to a high point of about 217 metres.

Nearby to Houghton le Side

Human settlements nearby to Houghton le Side are Bolam, Heighington, Denton, and Killerby.

Woodland coverage of Houghton le Side

Houghton le Side has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 96.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Houghton le Side

How much of Houghton le Side is water? Well, Houghton le Side has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎