Grange Over Sands

Grange-over-Sands is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Grange-over-Sands is 4,279, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Grange-over-Sands there are 2,006 males, and 2,273 females.

Location

Grange-over-Sands is located at a Latitude of 54.192966 (54°11'34.68"N), and Longitude of -2.909787 (-2°54'35.23"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Grange-over-Sands is an average of 32 metres34.

The elevation of Grange-over-Sands ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 195 metres.

Nearby to Grange-over-Sands

Human settlements nearby to Grange-over-Sands are Broughton East, Lower Allithwaite, Meathop and Ulpha, and Arnside.

Woodland coverage of Grange-over-Sands

Grange-over-Sands has approximately 19% woodland coverage which is approximately 560.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Grange-over-Sands

How much of Grange-over-Sands is water? Well, Grange-over-Sands has 0.15% water coverage, which is 4.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎