Leicestershire is a county of England.

There are 21 English counties in total and they include towns and rural areas, and exclude cities.

Population

The population of Leicestershire is 712,366, at the time of the 2021 census of the United Kingdom[1].

In Leicestershire there are 360,613 females, and 351,753 males.

Location

Leicestershire is located at a Latitude of 52.668178 (52° 40’ 5.4412" N), and Longitude of -1.113455 (-1° 6’ 48.4393" W)1.

Elevation

The elevation of Leicestershire is an average of 105 metres23.

The elevation of Leicestershire ranges from a low point of about 1 metres, to a high point of about 300 metres.

Woodland Coverage of Leicestershire

Leicestershire has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 31,114.8 hectare of woodland4.

Water coverage

How much of Leicestershire is water? Well, Leicestershire has 0.66% water coverage, which is 3,758.8 hectare of water4.


  1. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  2. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset. For Leicestershire I have used 3,591,940 samples in my calculation. ↩︎

  3. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  4. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved March 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎

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