Whixall

Whixall is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Whixall is 865, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whixall there are 434 males, and 431 females.

Location

Whixall is located at a Latitude of 52.908813 (52°54'31.73"N), and Longitude of -2.740857 (-2°44'27.08"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whixall is an average of 84 metres34.

The elevation of Whixall ranges from a low point of about 42 metres, to a high point of about 124 metres.

Nearby to Whixall

Human settlements nearby to Whixall are Wem Rural, Wem Urban, Welshampton and Lyneal, and Whitchurch Rural.

Woodland coverage of Whixall

Whixall has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 139.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whixall

How much of Whixall is water? Well, Whixall has 1.56% water coverage, which is 58.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎