Whitestaunton

Whitestaunton is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Whitestaunton is 300, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whitestaunton there are 161 males, and 139 females.

Location

Whitestaunton is located at a Latitude of 50.890004 (50°53'24.02"N), and Longitude of -3.033918 (-3°2'2.10"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whitestaunton is an average of 185 metres34.

The elevation of Whitestaunton ranges from a low point of about 82 metres, to a high point of about 257 metres.

Nearby to Whitestaunton

Human settlements nearby to Whitestaunton are Wambrook, Yarcombe, Combe St Nicholas, and Buckland St Mary.

Woodland coverage of Whitestaunton

Whitestaunton has approximately 17% woodland coverage which is approximately 404.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whitestaunton

How much of Whitestaunton is water? Well, Whitestaunton has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎