Kirby Wiske

Kirby Wiske is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Kirby Wiske is 114, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kirby Wiske there are 54 males, and 60 females.

Location

Kirby Wiske is located at a Latitude of 54.258434 (54°15'30.36"N), and Longitude of -1.442219 (-1°26'31.99"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kirby Wiske is an average of 22 metres34.

The elevation of Kirby Wiske ranges from a low point of about 7 metres, to a high point of about 55 metres.

Nearby to Kirby Wiske

Human settlements nearby to Kirby Wiske are Newsham with Breckenbrough, Pickhill with Roxby, Maunby, and Holme.

Woodland coverage of Kirby Wiske

Kirby Wiske has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 46.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kirby Wiske

How much of Kirby Wiske is water? Well, Kirby Wiske has 0.03% water coverage, which is 0.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎