Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire is 1,198,798, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Hertfordshire there are 613,393 females, and 585,405 males.

Location

Hertfordshire is located at a Latitude of 51.830115 (51° 49’ 48.4137" N), and Longitude of -0.216778 (0° 13’ 0.4005" E)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Hertfordshire is an average of 97 metres23.

The elevation of Hertfordshire ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 262 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire has approximately 11% woodland coverage which is approximately 48,140.7 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Hertfordshire is water? Well, Hertfordshire has 0.55% water coverage, which is 2,352.5 hectare of water4.


  1. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  2. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset. For Hertfordshire I have used 2,777,398 samples in my calculation. ↩︎

  3. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  4. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎

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