Sway

Sway is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Sway is 3,476, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Sway there are 1,644 males, and 1,832 females.

Location

Sway is located at a Latitude of 50.779592 (50°46'46.53"N), and Longitude of -1.601336 (-1°36'4.81"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Sway is an average of 38 metres34.

The elevation of Sway ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 71 metres.

Nearby to Sway

Human settlements nearby to Sway are Hordle, Brockenhurst, Lymington and Pennington, and New Milton.

Woodland coverage of Sway

Sway has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 270.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Sway

How much of Sway is water? Well, Sway has 0.25% water coverage, which is 8.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎