Chesham

Chesham is a human settlement in Buckinghamshire, England.

Population

The population of Chesham is 22,471, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Chesham there are 10,964 males, and 11,507 females.

Location

Chesham is located at a Latitude of 51.708551 (51°42'30.78"N), and Longitude of -0.606934 (0°36'24.96"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Chesham is an average of 138 metres34.

The elevation of Chesham ranges from a low point of about 55 metres, to a high point of about 188 metres.

Nearby to Chesham

Human settlements nearby to Chesham are Chesham Bois, Latimer and Ley Hill, Chartridge, and Ashley Green.

Woodland coverage of Chesham

Chesham has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 225.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Chesham

How much of Chesham is water? Well, Chesham has 0.48% water coverage, which is 17.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎