Norton on Derwent

Norton-on-Derwent is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Norton-on-Derwent is 6,870, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Norton-on-Derwent there are 3,330 males, and 3,540 females.

Location

Norton-on-Derwent is located at a Latitude of 54.122064 (54°7'19.43"N), and Longitude of -0.789466 (0°47'22.08"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Norton-on-Derwent is an average of 25 metres34.

The elevation of Norton-on-Derwent ranges from a low point of about 1 metres, to a high point of about 145 metres.

Nearby to Norton-on-Derwent

Human settlements nearby to Norton-on-Derwent are Langton, Malton, Broughton, and Burythorpe.

Woodland coverage of Norton-on-Derwent

Norton-on-Derwent has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 113.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Norton-on-Derwent

How much of Norton-on-Derwent is water? Well, Norton-on-Derwent has 0.95% water coverage, which is 31.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎