Birch

Birch is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of Birch is 881, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Birch there are 460 males, and 421 females.

Location

Birch is located at a Latitude of 51.847006 (51°50'49.22"N), and Longitude of 0.809703 (0°48'34.93"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Birch is an average of 38 metres34.

The elevation of Birch ranges from a low point of about 11 metres, to a high point of about 68 metres.

Nearby to Birch

Human settlements nearby to Birch are Copford, Layer Breton, Layer Marney, and Stanway.

Woodland coverage of Birch

Birch has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 317.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Birch

How much of Birch is water? Well, Birch has 1.45% water coverage, which is 51.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎