Irchester

Irchester is a human settlement in Northamptonshire, England.

Population

The population of Irchester is 4,913, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Irchester there are 2,469 males, and 2,444 females.

Location

Irchester is located at a Latitude of 52.283901 (52°17'2.04"N), and Longitude of -0.649387 (0°38'57.79"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Irchester is an average of 63 metres34.

The elevation of Irchester ranges from a low point of about 16 metres, to a high point of about 107 metres.

Nearby to Irchester

Human settlements nearby to Irchester are Wollaston, Rushden, Wymington, and Podington.

Woodland coverage of Irchester

Irchester has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 231.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Irchester

How much of Irchester is water? Well, Irchester has 3.84% water coverage, which is 115.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎