Croston

Croston is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Croston is 3,098, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Croston there are 1,501 males, and 1,597 females.

Location

Croston is located at a Latitude of 53.655006 (53°39'18.02"N), and Longitude of -2.783252 (-2°46'59.71"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Croston is an average of 10 metres34.

The elevation of Croston ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 38 metres.

Nearby to Croston

Human settlements nearby to Croston are Bretherton, Mawdesley, Ulnes Walton, and Eccleston.

Woodland coverage of Croston

Croston has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 131.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Croston

How much of Croston is water? Well, Croston has 0.72% water coverage, which is 20.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎