Little Waltham

Little Waltham is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of Little Waltham is 1,036, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Little Waltham there are 503 males, and 533 females.

Location

Little Waltham is located at a Latitude of 51.789567 (51°47'22.44"N), and Longitude of 0.491208 (0°29'28.35"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Little Waltham is an average of 54 metres34.

The elevation of Little Waltham ranges from a low point of about 19 metres, to a high point of about 80 metres.

Nearby to Little Waltham

Human settlements nearby to Little Waltham are Broomfield, Great and Little Leighs, Boreham, and Great Waltham.

Woodland coverage of Little Waltham

Little Waltham has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 209.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Little Waltham

How much of Little Waltham is water? Well, Little Waltham has 0.89% water coverage, which is 27.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎