Wicken

Wicken is a human settlement in Cambridgeshire, England.

Population

The population of Wicken is 906, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wicken there are 453 males, and 453 females.

Location

Wicken is located at a Latitude of 52.323227 (52°19'23.62"N), and Longitude of 0.27636 (0°16'34.90"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wicken is an average of 9 metres34.

The elevation of Wicken ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 33 metres.

Nearby to Wicken

Human settlements nearby to Wicken are Stretham, Thetford, Soham, and Burwell.

Woodland coverage of Wicken

Wicken has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 191.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wicken

How much of Wicken is water? Well, Wicken has 1.70% water coverage, which is 72.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎