Whitchurch

Whitchurch is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Whitchurch is 4,105, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whitchurch there are 2,009 males, and 2,096 females.

Location

Whitchurch is located at a Latitude of 51.245983 (51°14'45.54"N), and Longitude of -1.327494 (-1°19'38.98"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whitchurch is an average of 116 metres34.

The elevation of Whitchurch ranges from a low point of about 52 metres, to a high point of about 189 metres.

Nearby to Whitchurch

Human settlements nearby to Whitchurch are Hurstbourne Priors, Laverstoke, Overton, and Litchfield and Woodcott.

Woodland coverage of Whitchurch

Whitchurch has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 855.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whitchurch

How much of Whitchurch is water? Well, Whitchurch has 0.06% water coverage, which is 4.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎