Shepton Mallet

Shepton Mallet is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Shepton Mallet is 10,595, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shepton Mallet there are 5,232 males, and 5,363 females.

Location

Shepton Mallet is located at a Latitude of 51.19037 (51°11'25.33"N), and Longitude of -2.542583 (-2°32'33.30"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shepton Mallet is an average of 159 metres34.

The elevation of Shepton Mallet ranges from a low point of about 81 metres, to a high point of about 234 metres.

Nearby to Shepton Mallet

Human settlements nearby to Shepton Mallet are Doulting, Croscombe, Pilton, and Ashwick.

Woodland coverage of Shepton Mallet

Shepton Mallet has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 93.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shepton Mallet

How much of Shepton Mallet is water? Well, Shepton Mallet has 0.10% water coverage, which is 2.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎