Wareham Town

Wareham Town is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Wareham Town is 5,183, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wareham Town there are 2,431 males, and 2,752 females.

Location

Wareham Town is located at a Latitude of 50.69104 (50°41'27.74"N), and Longitude of -2.111991 (-2°6'43.17"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wareham Town is an average of 9 metres34.

The elevation of Wareham Town ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 54 metres.

Nearby to Wareham Town

Human settlements nearby to Wareham Town are Wareham St. Martin, Arne, East Holme, and East Stoke.

Woodland coverage of Wareham Town

Wareham Town has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 56.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wareham Town

How much of Wareham Town is water? Well, Wareham Town has 3.31% water coverage, which is 53.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎