Sampford Courtenay

Sampford Courtenay is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Sampford Courtenay is 624, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Sampford Courtenay there are 315 males, and 309 females.

Location

Sampford Courtenay is located at a Latitude of 50.776114 (50°46'34.01"N), and Longitude of -3.946902 (-3°56'48.85"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Sampford Courtenay is an average of 156 metres34.

The elevation of Sampford Courtenay ranges from a low point of about 78 metres, to a high point of about 270 metres.

Nearby to Sampford Courtenay

Human settlements nearby to Sampford Courtenay are Exbourne, Sticklepath, North Tawton, and Jacobstowe.

Woodland coverage of Sampford Courtenay

Sampford Courtenay has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,039.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Sampford Courtenay

How much of Sampford Courtenay is water? Well, Sampford Courtenay has 0.04% water coverage, which is 3.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎