Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire is 725,291, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Oxfordshire there are 367,126 females, and 358,165 males.

Location

Oxfordshire is located at a Latitude of 51.766575 (51° 45’ 59.6701" N), and Longitude of -1.322498 (-1° 19’ 20.9925" W)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Oxfordshire is an average of 96 metres23.

The elevation of Oxfordshire ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 293 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 57,587.8 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Oxfordshire is water? Well, Oxfordshire has 0.78% water coverage, which is 5,329.9 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 Oxfordshire I have used 4,396,728 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. ↩︎ ↩︎

Oxfordshire

Abingdon on Thames

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Adderbury

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Adwell

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Alvescot

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Ambrosden

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Appleford on Thames

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Appleton With Eaton

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Ardington

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Ardley

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Arncott

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Ascott Under Wychwood

read more about this place
Oxfordshire

Ashbury

read more about this place