Thurcaston and Cropston

Thurcaston and Cropston is a human settlement in Leicestershire, England.

Population

The population of Thurcaston and Cropston is 1,988, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thurcaston and Cropston there are 971 males, and 1,017 females.

Location

Thurcaston and Cropston is located at a Latitude of 52.695727 (52°41'44.62"N), and Longitude of -1.169534 (-1°10'10.32"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thurcaston and Cropston is an average of 65 metres34.

The elevation of Thurcaston and Cropston ranges from a low point of about 15 metres, to a high point of about 118 metres.

Nearby to Thurcaston and Cropston

Human settlements nearby to Thurcaston and Cropston are Swithland, Rothley, Anstey, and Wanlip.

Woodland coverage of Thurcaston and Cropston

Thurcaston and Cropston has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 89.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thurcaston and Cropston

How much of Thurcaston and Cropston is water? Well, Thurcaston and Cropston has 0.24% water coverage, which is 3.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎