West Layton

West Layton is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of West Layton is 132, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Layton there are 71 males, and 61 females.

Location

West Layton is located at a Latitude of 54.493161 (54°29'35.38"N), and Longitude of -1.780355 (-1°46'49.28"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Layton is an average of 159 metres34.

The elevation of West Layton ranges from a low point of about 110 metres, to a high point of about 193 metres.

Nearby to West Layton

Human settlements nearby to West Layton are East Layton, Hutton Magna, Forcett and Carkin, and Ravensworth.

Woodland coverage of West Layton

West Layton has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 26.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Layton

How much of West Layton is water? Well, West Layton has 0.09% water coverage, which is 0.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎