Little Houghton

Little Houghton is a human settlement in Northamptonshire, England.

Population

The population of Little Houghton is 488, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Little Houghton there are 235 males, and 253 females.

Location

Little Houghton is located at a Latitude of 52.218391 (52°13'6.21"N), and Longitude of -0.821521 (0°49'17.48"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Little Houghton is an average of 100 metres34.

The elevation of Little Houghton ranges from a low point of about 41 metres, to a high point of about 146 metres.

Nearby to Little Houghton

Human settlements nearby to Little Houghton are Brafield on the Green, Great Houghton, Hardingstone, and Denton.

Woodland coverage of Little Houghton

Little Houghton has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 36.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Little Houghton

How much of Little Houghton is water? Well, Little Houghton has 2.54% water coverage, which is 66.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎