Compton Dundon

Compton Dundon is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Compton Dundon is 753, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Compton Dundon there are 379 males, and 374 females.

Location

Compton Dundon is located at a Latitude of 51.08666 (51°5'11.98"N), and Longitude of -2.736558 (-2°44'11.61"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Compton Dundon is an average of 14 metres34.

The elevation of Compton Dundon ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 136 metres.

Nearby to Compton Dundon

Human settlements nearby to Compton Dundon are Somerton, Butleigh, Street, and Kingweston.

Woodland coverage of Compton Dundon

Compton Dundon has approximately 14% woodland coverage which is approximately 401.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Compton Dundon

How much of Compton Dundon is water? Well, Compton Dundon has 0.03% water coverage, which is 0.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎