Thurlaston

Thurlaston is a human settlement in Leicestershire, England.

Population

The population of Thurlaston is 762, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thurlaston there are 368 males, and 394 females.

Location

Thurlaston is located at a Latitude of 52.590284 (52°35'25.02"N), and Longitude of -1.26421 (-1°15'51.16"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thurlaston is an average of 90 metres34.

The elevation of Thurlaston ranges from a low point of about 36 metres, to a high point of about 159 metres.

Nearby to Thurlaston

Human settlements nearby to Thurlaston are Leicester Forest West, Huncote, Potters Marston, and Earl Shilton.

Woodland coverage of Thurlaston

Thurlaston has approximately 2% woodland coverage which is approximately 50.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thurlaston

How much of Thurlaston is water? Well, Thurlaston has 0.23% water coverage, which is 6.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎