Witton Le Wear

Witton-le-Wear is a human settlement in North East, England.

Population

The population of Witton-le-Wear is 677, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Witton-le-Wear there are 336 males, and 341 females.

Location

Witton-le-Wear is located at a Latitude of 54.684223 (54°41'3.20"N), and Longitude of -1.769656 (-1°46'10.76"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Witton-le-Wear is an average of 135 metres34.

The elevation of Witton-le-Wear ranges from a low point of about 72 metres, to a high point of about 200 metres.

Nearby to Witton-le-Wear

Human settlements nearby to Witton-le-Wear are Hamsterley, Evenwood and Barony, Bishop Auckland, and West Auckland.

Woodland coverage of Witton-le-Wear

Witton-le-Wear has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 178.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Witton-le-Wear

How much of Witton-le-Wear is water? Well, Witton-le-Wear has 1.78% water coverage, which is 37.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎