North Poorton

North Poorton is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of North Poorton is 397, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In North Poorton there are 199 males, and 198 females.

Location

North Poorton is located at a Latitude of 50.783901 (50°47'2.04"N), and Longitude of -2.68576 (-2°41'8.74"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of North Poorton is an average of 117 metres34.

The elevation of North Poorton ranges from a low point of about 43 metres, to a high point of about 215 metres.

Nearby to North Poorton

Human settlements nearby to North Poorton are Mapperton, Powerstock, Hooke, and Toller Porcorum.

Woodland coverage of North Poorton

North Poorton has approximately 16% woodland coverage which is approximately 110.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of North Poorton

How much of North Poorton is water? Well, North Poorton has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎