Buildwas

Buildwas is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Buildwas is 309, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Buildwas there are 153 males, and 156 females.

Location

Buildwas is located at a Latitude of 52.635345 (52°38'7.24"N), and Longitude of -2.533963 (-2°32'2.27"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Buildwas is an average of 78 metres34.

The elevation of Buildwas ranges from a low point of about 19 metres, to a high point of about 205 metres.

Nearby to Buildwas

Human settlements nearby to Buildwas are Sheinton, The Gorge, Leighton and Eaton Constantine, and Little Wenlock.

Woodland coverage of Buildwas

Buildwas has approximately 25% woodland coverage which is approximately 547.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Buildwas

How much of Buildwas is water? Well, Buildwas has 2.79% water coverage, which is 62.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎