Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of Saffron Walden is 14,948, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Saffron Walden there are 7,172 males, and 7,776 females.

Location

Saffron Walden is located at a Latitude of 52.03211 (52°1'55.59"N), and Longitude of 0.249308 (0°14'57.51"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Saffron Walden is an average of 85 metres34.

The elevation of Saffron Walden ranges from a low point of about 19 metres, to a high point of about 143 metres.

Nearby to Saffron Walden

Human settlements nearby to Saffron Walden are Sewards End, Little Chesterford, Littlebury, and Ashdon.

Woodland coverage of Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 535.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Saffron Walden

How much of Saffron Walden is water? Well, Saffron Walden has 0.13% water coverage, which is 8.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎