Scalthwaiterigg

Scalthwaiterigg is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Scalthwaiterigg is 274, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Scalthwaiterigg there are 143 males, and 131 females.

Location

Scalthwaiterigg is located at a Latitude of 54.347855 (54°20'52.28"N), and Longitude of -2.667135 (-2°40'1.68"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Scalthwaiterigg is an average of 146 metres34.

The elevation of Scalthwaiterigg ranges from a low point of about 53 metres, to a high point of about 315 metres.

Nearby to Scalthwaiterigg

Human settlements nearby to Scalthwaiterigg are Docker, Lambrigg, New Hutton, and Skelsmergh.

Woodland coverage of Scalthwaiterigg

Scalthwaiterigg has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 155.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Scalthwaiterigg

How much of Scalthwaiterigg is water? Well, Scalthwaiterigg has 0.05% water coverage, which is 2.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎