Essex is a county of England.
There are 21 English counties in total and they include towns and rural areas, and exclude cities.
Population
The population of Essex is 1,503,521, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].
In Essex there are 771,189 females, and 732,332 males.
Location
Essex is located at a Latitude of 51.812326 (51° 48’ 44.3719" N), and Longitude of 0.559964 (0° 33’ 35.8719" E)1.
Elevation
The elevation of Essex is an average of 52 metres23.
The elevation of Essex ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 181 metres.
Woodland Coverage of Essex
Essex has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 64,295.3 hectare of woodland4.
Water coverage
How much of Essex is water? Well, Essex has 1.13% water coverage, which is 10,210.5 hectare of water4.
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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. For Essex I have used 5,813,603 samples in my calculation. ↩︎
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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 March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎