East Sussex 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 East Sussex is 545,847, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In East Sussex there are 283,700 females, and 262,147 males.

Location

East Sussex is located at a Latitude of 50.94231 (50° 56’ 32.3143" N), and Longitude of 0.274875 (0° 16’ 29.5484" E)1.

Elevation

The elevation of East Sussex is an average of 53 metres23.

The elevation of East Sussex ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 251 metres.

Woodland Coverage of East Sussex

East Sussex has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 84,682.7 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of East Sussex is water? Well, East Sussex has 0.78% water coverage, which is 3,354.1 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 East Sussex I have used 2,840,285 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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Rye Foreign

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