Balcombe

Balcombe is a human settlement in West Sussex, England.

Population

The population of Balcombe is 1,903, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Balcombe there are 936 males, and 967 females.

Location

Balcombe is located at a Latitude of 51.060596 (51°3'38.14"N), and Longitude of -0.135977 (0°8'9.52"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Balcombe is an average of 99 metres34.

The elevation of Balcombe ranges from a low point of about 22 metres, to a high point of about 168 metres.

Nearby to Balcombe

Human settlements nearby to Balcombe are Ardingly, Turners Hill, Slaugham, and Ansty and Staplefield.

Woodland coverage of Balcombe

Balcombe has approximately 44% woodland coverage which is approximately 2,368.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Balcombe

How much of Balcombe is water? Well, Balcombe has 0.54% water coverage, which is 28.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎