Wem Urban

Wem Urban is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Wem Urban is 5,479, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wem Urban there are 2,737 males, and 2,742 females.

Location

Wem Urban is located at a Latitude of 52.856894 (52°51'24.82"N), and Longitude of -2.724007 (-2°43'26.42"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wem Urban is an average of 79 metres34.

The elevation of Wem Urban ranges from a low point of about 31 metres, to a high point of about 143 metres.

Nearby to Wem Urban

Human settlements nearby to Wem Urban are Wem Rural, Clive, Loppington, and Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst.

Woodland coverage of Wem Urban

Wem Urban has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 11.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wem Urban

How much of Wem Urban is water? Well, Wem Urban has 0.44% water coverage, which is 4.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎