Drighlington

Drighlington is a human settlement in Yorkshire and The Humber, England.

Population

The population of Drighlington is 5,701, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Drighlington there are 2,784 males, and 2,917 females.

Location

Drighlington is located at a Latitude of 53.756159 (53°45'22.17"N), and Longitude of -1.657026 (-1°39'25.29"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Drighlington is an average of 168 metres34.

The elevation of Drighlington ranges from a low point of about 101 metres, to a high point of about 219 metres.

Nearby to Drighlington

Human settlements nearby to Drighlington are Gildersome, Morley, Trident, and Mirfield.

Woodland coverage of Drighlington

Drighlington has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 59.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Drighlington

How much of Drighlington is water? Well, Drighlington has 0.28% water coverage, which is 3.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎