Great Busby

Great Busby is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Great Busby is 364, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Busby there are 187 males, and 177 females.

Location

Great Busby is located at a Latitude of 54.440816 (54°26'26.94"N), and Longitude of -1.199556 (-1°11'58.40"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Busby is an average of 78 metres34.

The elevation of Great Busby ranges from a low point of about 39 metres, to a high point of about 384 metres.

Nearby to Great Busby

Human settlements nearby to Great Busby are Little Busby, Kirkby, and Faceby.

Woodland coverage of Great Busby

Great Busby has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 81.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Busby

How much of Great Busby is water? Well, Great Busby has 0.44% water coverage, which is 7.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎