Suffolk 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 Suffolk is 760,688, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Suffolk there are 385,976 females, and 374,712 males.

Location

Suffolk is located at a Latitude of 52.221393 (52° 13’ 17.0131" N), and Longitude of 1.058881 (1° 3’ 31.9729" E)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Suffolk is an average of 42 metres23.

The elevation of Suffolk ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 155 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Suffolk

Suffolk has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 88,270.6 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Suffolk is water? Well, Suffolk has 0.54% water coverage, which is 5,455.1 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 Suffolk I have used 6,475,412 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. ↩︎ ↩︎

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