Handforth

Handforth is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Handforth is 6,715, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Handforth there are 3,376 males, and 3,339 females.

Location

Handforth is located at a Latitude of 53.349314 (53°20'57.53"N), and Longitude of -2.207143 (-2°12'25.71"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Handforth is an average of 76 metres34.

The elevation of Handforth ranges from a low point of about 46 metres, to a high point of about 97 metres.

Nearby to Handforth

Human settlements nearby to Handforth are Styal, Wilmslow, Mottram St. Andrew, and Alderley Edge.

Woodland coverage of Handforth

Handforth has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 112.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Handforth

How much of Handforth is water? Well, Handforth has 0.66% water coverage, which is 8.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎