South Woodham Ferrers

South Woodham Ferrers is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of South Woodham Ferrers is 16,021, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In South Woodham Ferrers there are 7,854 males, and 8,167 females.

Location

South Woodham Ferrers is located at a Latitude of 51.647476 (51°38'50.91"N), and Longitude of 0.611139 (0°36'40.10"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of South Woodham Ferrers is an average of 12 metres34.

The elevation of South Woodham Ferrers ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 67 metres.

Nearby to South Woodham Ferrers

Human settlements nearby to South Woodham Ferrers are Stow Maries, Rettendon, Hullbridge, and Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre.

Woodland coverage of South Woodham Ferrers

South Woodham Ferrers has approximately 2% woodland coverage which is approximately 51.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of South Woodham Ferrers

How much of South Woodham Ferrers is water? Well, South Woodham Ferrers has 0.71% water coverage, which is 15.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎