West Thorney

West Thorney is a human settlement in West Sussex, England.

Population

The population of West Thorney is 1,730, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Thorney there are 1,222 males, and 508 females.

Location

West Thorney is located at a Latitude of 50.818565 (50°49'6.83"N), and Longitude of -0.923121 (0°55'23.24"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Thorney is an average of 9 metres34.

The elevation of West Thorney ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 23 metres.

Nearby to West Thorney

Human settlements nearby to West Thorney are Southbourne, Chidham and Hambrook, West Itchenor, and West Wittering.

Woodland coverage of West Thorney

West Thorney has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 73.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Thorney

How much of West Thorney is water? Well, West Thorney has 0.69% water coverage, which is 9.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎