West Horndon

West Horndon is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of West Horndon is 1,650, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Horndon there are 841 males, and 809 females.

Location

West Horndon is located at a Latitude of 51.574396 (51°34'27.83"N), and Longitude of 0.353287 (0°21'11.83"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Horndon is an average of 18 metres34.

The elevation of West Horndon ranges from a low point of about 6 metres, to a high point of about 64 metres.

Nearby to West Horndon

Human settlements nearby to West Horndon are Herongate and Ingrave, Little Burstead, Noak Bridge, and Great Burstead and South Green.

Woodland coverage of West Horndon

West Horndon has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 183.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Horndon

How much of West Horndon is water? Well, West Horndon has 0.57% water coverage, which is 11.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎