Scarcroft

Scarcroft is a human settlement in Yorkshire and The Humber, England.

Population

The population of Scarcroft is 1,257, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Scarcroft there are 612 males, and 645 females.

Location

Scarcroft is located at a Latitude of 53.867846 (53°52'4.25"N), and Longitude of -1.445364 (-1°26'43.31"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Scarcroft is an average of 96 metres34.

The elevation of Scarcroft ranges from a low point of about 27 metres, to a high point of about 162 metres.

Nearby to Scarcroft

Human settlements nearby to Scarcroft are Bardsey cum Rigton, Thorner, Shadwell, and Wothersome.

Woodland coverage of Scarcroft

Scarcroft has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 165.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Scarcroft

How much of Scarcroft is water? Well, Scarcroft has 0.23% water coverage, which is 3.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎