Somersham

Somersham is a human settlement in Suffolk, England.

Population

The population of Somersham is 705, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Somersham there are 360 males, and 345 females.

Location

Somersham is located at a Latitude of 52.092664 (52°5'33.59"N), and Longitude of 1.032595 (1°1'57.34"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Somersham is an average of 59 metres34.

The elevation of Somersham ranges from a low point of about 13 metres, to a high point of about 87 metres.

Nearby to Somersham

Human settlements nearby to Somersham are Flowton, Nettlestead, Elmsett, and Willisham.

Woodland coverage of Somersham

Somersham has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 38.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Somersham

How much of Somersham is water? Well, Somersham has 0.13% water coverage, which is 1.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎