Headcorn

Headcorn is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Headcorn is 3,655, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Headcorn there are 1,726 males, and 1,929 females.

Location

Headcorn is located at a Latitude of 51.170141 (51°10'12.51"N), and Longitude of 0.625453 (0°37'31.63"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Headcorn is an average of 24 metres34.

The elevation of Headcorn ranges from a low point of about 11 metres, to a high point of about 66 metres.

Nearby to Headcorn

Human settlements nearby to Headcorn are Frittenden, Sutton Valence, East Sutton, and Ulcombe.

Woodland coverage of Headcorn

Headcorn has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 169.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Headcorn

How much of Headcorn is water? Well, Headcorn has 0.36% water coverage, which is 19.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎