Shafton

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

Population

The population of Shafton is 3,394, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shafton there are 1,672 males, and 1,722 females.

Location

Shafton is located at a Latitude of 53.592452 (53°35'32.83"N), and Longitude of -1.409558 (-1°24'34.41"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shafton is an average of 57 metres34.

The elevation of Shafton ranges from a low point of about 24 metres, to a high point of about 94 metres.

Nearby to Shafton

Human settlements nearby to Shafton are South Hiendley, Brierley, Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, and Ryhill.

Woodland coverage of Shafton

Shafton has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 107.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shafton

How much of Shafton is water? Well, Shafton has 0.05% water coverage, which is 0.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎