South Otterington

South Otterington is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of South Otterington is 338, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In South Otterington there are 168 males, and 170 females.

Location

South Otterington is located at a Latitude of 54.284956 (54°17'5.84"N), and Longitude of -1.423127 (-1°25'23.26"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of South Otterington is an average of 20 metres34.

The elevation of South Otterington ranges from a low point of about 7 metres, to a high point of about 47 metres.

Nearby to South Otterington

Human settlements nearby to South Otterington are Thornton-le-Moor, Newby Wiske, Maunby, and North Otterington.

Woodland coverage of South Otterington

South Otterington has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 23.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of South Otterington

How much of South Otterington is water? Well, South Otterington has 0.10% water coverage, which is 1.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎