Devon 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 Devon is 811,640, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Devon there are 417,600 females, and 394,040 males.

Location

Devon is located at a Latitude of 50.763222 (50° 45’ 47.5985" N), and Longitude of -3.810551 (-3° 48’ 37.9826" W)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Devon is an average of 136 metres23.

The elevation of Devon ranges from a low point of about -1 metres, to a high point of about 615 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Devon

Devon has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 193,327.2 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Devon is water? Well, Devon has 0.26% water coverage, which is 4,334.0 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 Devon I have used 10,838,051 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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Musbury

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