Hightown

Hightown is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Hightown is 2,017, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Hightown there are 973 males, and 1,044 females.

Location

Hightown is located at a Latitude of 53.521399 (53°31'17.03"N), and Longitude of -3.057414 (-3°3'26.69"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Hightown is an average of 9 metres34.

The elevation of Hightown ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 34 metres.

Nearby to Hightown

Human settlements nearby to Hightown are Little Altcar, Ince Blundell, Thornton, and Great Altcar.

Woodland coverage of Hightown

Hightown has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 11.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Hightown

How much of Hightown is water? Well, Hightown has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎