Over Compton

Over Compton is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Over Compton is 168, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Over Compton there are 83 males, and 85 females.

Location

Over Compton is located at a Latitude of 50.951863 (50°57'6.71"N), and Longitude of -2.588166 (-2°35'17.40"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Over Compton is an average of 49 metres34.

The elevation of Over Compton ranges from a low point of about 11 metres, to a high point of about 108 metres.

Nearby to Over Compton

Human settlements nearby to Over Compton are Nether Compton, Bradford Abbas, Trent, and Mudford.

Woodland coverage of Over Compton

Over Compton has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 26.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Over Compton

How much of Over Compton is water? Well, Over Compton has 0.17% water coverage, which is 1.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎