Chilham

Chilham is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Chilham is 1,772, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Chilham there are 845 males, and 927 females.

Location

Chilham is located at a Latitude of 51.24562 (51°14'44.23"N), and Longitude of 0.958846 (0°57'31.84"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Chilham is an average of 69 metres34.

The elevation of Chilham ranges from a low point of about 7 metres, to a high point of about 152 metres.

Nearby to Chilham

Human settlements nearby to Chilham are Godmersham, Selling, Molash, and Chartham.

Woodland coverage of Chilham

Chilham has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 910.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Chilham

How much of Chilham is water? Well, Chilham has 1.41% water coverage, which is 64.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎