Oakham

Oakham is a human settlement in East Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Oakham is 10,117, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Oakham there are 4,872 males, and 5,245 females.

Location

Oakham is located at a Latitude of 52.667095 (52°40'1.54"N), and Longitude of -0.742076 (0°44'31.47"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Oakham is an average of 118 metres34.

The elevation of Oakham ranges from a low point of about 66 metres, to a high point of about 228 metres.

Nearby to Oakham

Human settlements nearby to Oakham are Egleton, Braunston-in-Rutland, Brooke, and Langham.

Woodland coverage of Oakham

Oakham has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 83.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Oakham

How much of Oakham is water? Well, Oakham has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎