West Midlands, England is one of nine regions of England.
West Midlands is bordered by Wales to the west, and contains the City Birmingham.
Population
The population of West Midlands is 5,950,632, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.
In West Midlands there are 2,927,515 males, and 3,023,117 females.
Location
West Midlands is located at a Latitude of 52.483460, and Longitude of -2.2702082.
Elevation
The elevation of West Midlands is an average of 103 metres34.
The elevation of West Midlands ranges from a low point of about -8 metres, to a high point of about 705 metres.
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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. ↩︎
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location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎
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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. ↩︎
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The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎