Wortley

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

Population

The population of Wortley is 685, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wortley there are 344 males, and 341 females.

Location

Wortley is located at a Latitude of 53.478555 (53°28'42.80"N), and Longitude of -1.529505 (-1°31'46.22"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wortley is an average of 191 metres34.

The elevation of Wortley ranges from a low point of about 77 metres, to a high point of about 308 metres.

Nearby to Wortley

Human settlements nearby to Wortley are Tankersley, Ecclesfield, Stocksbridge, and Thurgoland.

Woodland coverage of Wortley

Wortley has approximately 27% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,606.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wortley

How much of Wortley is water? Well, Wortley has 0.29% water coverage, which is 16.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎