Amersham

Amersham is a human settlement in Buckinghamshire, England.

Population

The population of Amersham is 15,181, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Amersham there are 7,408 males, and 7,773 females.

Location

Amersham is located at a Latitude of 51.667627 (51°40'3.46"N), and Longitude of -0.614781 (0°36'53.21"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Amersham is an average of 142 metres34.

The elevation of Amersham ranges from a low point of about 68 metres, to a high point of about 202 metres.

Nearby to Amersham

Human settlements nearby to Amersham are Chesham Bois, Coleshill, Little Chalfont, and Chesham.

Woodland coverage of Amersham

Amersham has approximately 16% woodland coverage which is approximately 869.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Amersham

How much of Amersham is water? Well, Amersham has 0.39% water coverage, which is 20.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎