Amersham is mostly professional families in their middle years, who own their homes and have the paperwork in order. Seven in ten households own. More than half the adults have a degree. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. Household incomes are high, before the tax comes off.
About 73% of Amersham's households own their home, about 15% rent privately and about 12% rent from a council or housing association. The private rental market is small, so a renter looking here won't find much on offer at any one time.
Every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 census unless it says otherwise. The median resident is 45, and about 22% of residents are aged 25 to 44. At 45 most people here have already bought the house and moved on to paying for the extension.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income at about £76,000 a year before tax across Amersham for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is several years old, and it is gross, which is the only stage at which it looks big enough for a band G council tax bill.
Couples with dependent children make up about 28% of households, and people living alone about 26%. Within that second group, about 14% of all households are pensioners living alone, so a little over half of everyone living alone here is retired. About 7% of households are lone parents. Roughly half the town is doing the school run and the other half has finished with it, with the parents in the first group spending their evenings on admissions rules.
About 55% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 10% have no formal qualifications, and full-time students make up about 2% of residents. With no college campus in town, students are scarce, and most of Amersham's graduates finished their degrees decades ago.
About 89% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Buckinghamshire as a whole does better than England on preventable deaths, and its smoking rate of about 8% is also better than the England figure. Those are county figures, and they cover far more of Buckinghamshire than this town.
The people are one of Amersham's real strengths: settled, educated, healthy and mostly in work. Anyone who wants neighbours like that will find them here, along with a house price to match.