Princes Risborough

Princes Risborough is a human settlement in Buckinghamshire, England.

Population

The population of Princes Risborough is 8,554, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Princes Risborough there are 4,047 males, and 4,507 females.

Location

Princes Risborough is located at a Latitude of 51.72739 (51°43'38.60"N), and Longitude of -0.8232 (0°49'23.52"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Princes Risborough is an average of 120 metres34.

The elevation of Princes Risborough ranges from a low point of about 57 metres, to a high point of about 263 metres.

Nearby to Princes Risborough

Human settlements nearby to Princes Risborough are Lacey Green, Longwick-cum-Ilmer, Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh, and Great and Little Hampden.

Woodland coverage of Princes Risborough

Princes Risborough has approximately 16% woodland coverage which is approximately 441.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Princes Risborough

How much of Princes Risborough is water? Well, Princes Risborough has 0.10% water coverage, which is 2.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎