Rooksdown

Rooksdown is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Rooksdown is 2,571, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Rooksdown there are 1,307 males, and 1,264 females.

Location

Rooksdown is located at a Latitude of 51.281466 (51°16'53.28"N), and Longitude of -1.120222 (-1°7'12.80"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Rooksdown is an average of 125 metres34.

The elevation of Rooksdown ranges from a low point of about 101 metres, to a high point of about 147 metres.

Nearby to Rooksdown

Human settlements nearby to Rooksdown are Sherborne St. John, Monk Sherborne, Wootton St. Lawrence with Ramsdell, and Chineham.

Woodland coverage of Rooksdown

Rooksdown has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 36.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Rooksdown

How much of Rooksdown is water? Well, Rooksdown has 0.07% water coverage, which is 0.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎