Derbyshire is a county of England.
There are 21 English counties in total and they include towns and rural areas, and exclude cities.
Population
The population of Derbyshire is 794,636, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].
In Derbyshire there are 404,853 females, and 389,783 males.
Location
Derbyshire is located at a Latitude of 53.143473 (53° 8’ 36.5024" N), and Longitude of -1.615941 (-1° 36’ 57.3866" W)1.
Elevation
The elevation of Derbyshire is an average of 159 metres23.
The elevation of Derbyshire ranges from a low point of about 1 metres, to a high point of about 644 metres.
Woodland Coverage of Derbyshire
Derbyshire has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 60,168.0 hectare of woodland4.
Water coverage
How much of Derbyshire is water? Well, Derbyshire has 1.05% water coverage, which is 7,452.7 hectare of water4.
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location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎
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From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset. For Derbyshire I have used 4,442,939 samples in my calculation. ↩︎
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The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎
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Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎