South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is a human settlement in Yorkshire and The Humber, England.

Population

The population of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is 11,293, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In South Kirkby and Moorthorpe there are 5,629 males, and 5,664 females.

Location

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is located at a Latitude of 53.592814 (53°35'34.13"N), and Longitude of -1.326567 (-1°19'35.64"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is an average of 42 metres34.

The elevation of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe ranges from a low point of about 8 metres, to a high point of about 129 metres.

Nearby to South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

Human settlements nearby to South Kirkby and Moorthorpe are Clayton with Frickley, South Elmsall, Brierley, and Great Houghton.

Woodland coverage of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 181.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

How much of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is water? Well, South Kirkby and Moorthorpe has 0.37% water coverage, which is 9.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎