Ferndown Town

Ferndown Town is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Ferndown Town is 16,946, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Ferndown Town there are 8,075 males, and 8,871 females.

Location

Ferndown Town is located at a Latitude of 50.800979 (50°48'3.52"N), and Longitude of -1.906095 (-1°54'21.94"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Ferndown Town is an average of 26 metres34.

The elevation of Ferndown Town ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 60 metres.

Nearby to Ferndown Town

Human settlements nearby to Ferndown Town are West Parley, West Moors, Colehill, and Holt.

Woodland coverage of Ferndown Town

Ferndown Town has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 940.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Ferndown Town

How much of Ferndown Town is water? Well, Ferndown Town has 2.61% water coverage, which is 122.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎