Kirkby Malham

Kirkby Malham is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Kirkby Malham is 170, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kirkby Malham there are 83 males, and 87 females.

Location

Kirkby Malham is located at a Latitude of 54.05479 (54°3'17.24"N), and Longitude of -2.179182 (-2°10'45.06"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kirkby Malham is an average of 297 metres34.

The elevation of Kirkby Malham ranges from a low point of about 138 metres, to a high point of about 544 metres.

Nearby to Kirkby Malham

Human settlements nearby to Kirkby Malham are Scosthrop, Airton, Malham, and Hanlith.

Woodland coverage of Kirkby Malham

Kirkby Malham has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 56.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kirkby Malham

How much of Kirkby Malham is water? Well, Kirkby Malham has 0.16% water coverage, which is 2.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎