Pocklington

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

Population

The population of Pocklington is 8,485, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Pocklington there are 4,101 males, and 4,384 females.

Location

Pocklington is located at a Latitude of 53.92705 (53°55'37.38"N), and Longitude of -0.775203 (0°46'30.73"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Pocklington is an average of 42 metres34.

The elevation of Pocklington ranges from a low point of about 2 metres, to a high point of about 118 metres.

Nearby to Pocklington

Human settlements nearby to Pocklington are Yapham, Allerthorpe, Barmby Moor, and Hayton.

Woodland coverage of Pocklington

Pocklington has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 162.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Pocklington

How much of Pocklington is water? Well, Pocklington has 0.40% water coverage, which is 12.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎