Long Melford

Long Melford is a human settlement in Suffolk, England.

Population

The population of Long Melford is 3,898, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Long Melford there are 1,901 males, and 1,997 females.

Location

Long Melford is located at a Latitude of 52.089946 (52°5'23.81"N), and Longitude of 0.726736 (0°43'36.25"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Long Melford is an average of 58 metres34.

The elevation of Long Melford ranges from a low point of about 15 metres, to a high point of about 95 metres.

Nearby to Long Melford

Human settlements nearby to Long Melford are Acton, Liston, Stanstead, and Alpheton.

Woodland coverage of Long Melford

Long Melford has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 573.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Long Melford

How much of Long Melford is water? Well, Long Melford has 0.58% water coverage, which is 33.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎