Swanscombe and Greenhithe

Swanscombe and Greenhithe is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Swanscombe and Greenhithe is 12,790, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Swanscombe and Greenhithe there are 6,252 males, and 6,538 females.

Location

Swanscombe and Greenhithe is located at a Latitude of 51.450853 (51°27'3.07"N), and Longitude of 0.299894 (0°17'59.62"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Swanscombe and Greenhithe is an average of 18 metres34.

The elevation of Swanscombe and Greenhithe ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 54 metres.

Nearby to Swanscombe and Greenhithe

Human settlements nearby to Swanscombe and Greenhithe are Stone, Bean, Southfleet, and Darenth.

Woodland coverage of Swanscombe and Greenhithe

Swanscombe and Greenhithe has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 104.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Swanscombe and Greenhithe

How much of Swanscombe and Greenhithe is water? Well, Swanscombe and Greenhithe has 0.98% water coverage, which is 10.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎