West Sussex 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 West Sussex is 882,676, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In West Sussex there are 453,958 females, and 428,718 males.

Location

West Sussex is located at a Latitude of 50.95858 (50° 57’ 30.8865" N), and Longitude of -0.489518 (0° 29’ 22.2663" E)1.

Elevation

The elevation of West Sussex is an average of 49 metres23.

The elevation of West Sussex ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 308 metres.

Woodland Coverage of West Sussex

West Sussex has approximately 21% woodland coverage which is approximately 106,449.7 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of West Sussex is water? Well, West Sussex has 0.61% water coverage, which is 3,070.2 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 West Sussex I have used 3,297,736 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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