Lancashire 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 Lancashire is 1,235,354, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Lancashire there are 628,381 females, and 606,973 males.

Location

Lancashire is located at a Latitude of 53.845612 (53° 50’ 44.2049" N), and Longitude of -2.611331 (-2° 36’ 40.7911" W)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Lancashire is an average of 88 metres23.

The elevation of Lancashire ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 642 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Lancashire

Lancashire has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 49,224.1 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Lancashire is water? Well, Lancashire has 0.84% water coverage, which is 6,999.3 hectare of water4.


  1. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  2. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset. For Lancashire I have used 5,104,430 samples in my calculation. ↩︎

  3. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  4. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎

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Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley

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Altham

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Anderton

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Anglezarke

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Arkholme With Cawood

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Astley Village

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Aughton

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Barnoldswick

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