Caston

Caston is a human settlement in Norfolk, England.

Population

The population of Caston is 480, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Caston there are 243 males, and 237 females.

Location

Caston is located at a Latitude of 52.541203 (52°32'28.33"N), and Longitude of 0.887351 (0°53'14.46"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Caston is an average of 46 metres34.

The elevation of Caston ranges from a low point of about 16 metres, to a high point of about 81 metres.

Nearby to Caston

Human settlements nearby to Caston are Griston, Stow Bedon and Breckles, Rocklands, and Thompson.

Woodland coverage of Caston

Caston has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 66.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Caston

How much of Caston is water? Well, Caston has 0.39% water coverage, which is 6.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎