Leigh

Leigh is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Leigh is 1,271, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Leigh there are 620 males, and 651 females.

Location

Leigh is located at a Latitude of 51.19875 (51°11'55.50"N), and Longitude of 0.203494 (0°12'12.58"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Leigh is an average of 44 metres34.

The elevation of Leigh ranges from a low point of about 16 metres, to a high point of about 97 metres.

Nearby to Leigh

Human settlements nearby to Leigh are Bidborough, Hildenborough, Chiddingstone, and Sevenoaks Weald.

Woodland coverage of Leigh

Leigh has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 836.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Leigh

How much of Leigh is water? Well, Leigh has 0.63% water coverage, which is 26.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎