West Malling

West Malling is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of West Malling is 2,554, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Malling there are 1,167 males, and 1,387 females.

Location

West Malling is located at a Latitude of 51.289028 (51°17'20.50"N), and Longitude of 0.402816 (0°24'10.14"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Malling is an average of 55 metres34.

The elevation of West Malling ranges from a low point of about 23 metres, to a high point of about 112 metres.

Nearby to West Malling

Human settlements nearby to West Malling are Kings Hill, Leybourne, East Malling and Larkfield, and Offham.

Woodland coverage of West Malling

West Malling has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 127.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Malling

How much of West Malling is water? Well, West Malling has 0.37% water coverage, which is 3.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎