Gloucestershire is a county of England.

There are 21 English counties in total and they include towns and rural areas, and exclude cities.

Population

The population of Gloucestershire is 645,076, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Gloucestershire there are 329,832 females, and 315,244 males.

Location

Gloucestershire is located at a Latitude of 51.827996 (51° 49’ 40.7868" N), and Longitude of -2.118968 (-2° 7’ 8.2844" W)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Gloucestershire is an average of 119 metres23.

The elevation of Gloucestershire ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 366 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 87,281.7 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Gloucestershire is water? Well, Gloucestershire has 0.60% water coverage, which is 4,143.5 hectare of water4.


  1. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  2. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset. For Gloucestershire I have used 4,486,182 samples in my calculation. ↩︎

  3. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  4. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎

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