Westhoughton

Westhoughton is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Westhoughton is 24,682, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Westhoughton there are 12,234 males, and 12,448 females.

Location

Westhoughton is located at a Latitude of 53.550999 (53°33'3.60"N), and Longitude of -2.533083 (-2°31'59.10"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Westhoughton is an average of 100 metres34.

The elevation of Westhoughton ranges from a low point of about 18 metres, to a high point of about 150 metres.

Nearby to Westhoughton

Human settlements nearby to Westhoughton are Horwich, Blackrod, Haigh, and Anderton.

Woodland coverage of Westhoughton

Westhoughton has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 360.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Westhoughton

How much of Westhoughton is water? Well, Westhoughton has 0.29% water coverage, which is 14.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎