South Heighton

South Heighton is a human settlement in East Sussex, England.

Population

The population of South Heighton is 1,015, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In South Heighton there are 492 males, and 523 females.

Location

South Heighton is located at a Latitude of 50.808334 (50°48'30.00"N), and Longitude of 0.083069 (0°4'59.05"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of South Heighton is an average of 60 metres34.

The elevation of South Heighton ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 150 metres.

Nearby to South Heighton

Human settlements nearby to South Heighton are Tarring Neville, Newhaven, Alfriston, and Alciston.

Woodland coverage of South Heighton

South Heighton has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 20.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of South Heighton

How much of South Heighton is water? Well, South Heighton has 0.12% water coverage, which is 2.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎