Bircham

Bircham is a human settlement in Norfolk, England.

Population

The population of Bircham is 434, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Bircham there are 225 males, and 209 females.

Location

Bircham is located at a Latitude of 52.855223 (52°51'18.80"N), and Longitude of 0.626392 (0°37'35.01"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Bircham is an average of 62 metres34.

The elevation of Bircham ranges from a low point of about 21 metres, to a high point of about 99 metres.

Nearby to Bircham

Human settlements nearby to Bircham are Houghton, Fring, Bagthorpe with Barmer, and Anmer.

Woodland coverage of Bircham

Bircham has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 622.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Bircham

How much of Bircham is water? Well, Bircham has 0.04% water coverage, which is 2.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎