Dean Prior

Dean Prior is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Dean Prior is 221, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Dean Prior there are 108 males, and 113 females.

Location

Dean Prior is located at a Latitude of 50.46666 (50°27'59.98"N), and Longitude of -3.821397 (-3°49'17.03"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Dean Prior is an average of 190 metres34.

The elevation of Dean Prior ranges from a low point of about 32 metres, to a high point of about 466 metres.

Nearby to Dean Prior

Human settlements nearby to Dean Prior are West Buckfastleigh, South Brent, Buckfastleigh, and Rattery.

Woodland coverage of Dean Prior

Dean Prior has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 288.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Dean Prior

How much of Dean Prior is water? Well, Dean Prior has 0.64% water coverage, which is 26.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎