Kirkby Ireleth

Kirkby Ireleth is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Kirkby Ireleth is 1,225, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kirkby Ireleth there are 618 males, and 607 females.

Location

Kirkby Ireleth is located at a Latitude of 54.256698 (54°15'24.11"N), and Longitude of -3.159984 (-3°9'35.94"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kirkby Ireleth is an average of 84 metres34.

The elevation of Kirkby Ireleth ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 342 metres.

Nearby to Kirkby Ireleth

Human settlements nearby to Kirkby Ireleth are Angerton, Lowick, Blawith and Subberthwaite, and Broughton West.

Woodland coverage of Kirkby Ireleth

Kirkby Ireleth has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,003.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kirkby Ireleth

How much of Kirkby Ireleth is water? Well, Kirkby Ireleth has 0.10% water coverage, which is 10.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎