Dorchester
Dorchester is a human settlement in Dorset, England.
Population
The population of Dorchester is 18,886, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.
In Dorchester there are 8,986 males, and 9,900 females.
Location
Dorchester is located at a Latitude of 50.711403 (50°42'41.05"N), and Longitude of -2.44451 (-2°26'40.23"W)2.
Elevation
The elevation of Dorchester is an average of 69 metres34.
The elevation of Dorchester ranges from a low point of about 23 metres, to a high point of about 121 metres.
Nearby to Dorchester
Human settlements nearby to Dorchester are Winterborne Herringston, Winterborne Monkton, Winterborne Came, and Stinsford.
Woodland coverage of Dorchester
Dorchester has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 65.4 hectare of woodland5.
Water coverage of Dorchester
How much of Dorchester is water? Well, Dorchester has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.2 hectare of water5.
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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. ↩︎
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location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎
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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. ↩︎
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The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎
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Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved February 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎