Barnham is mostly owner-occupiers in their late forties on comfortable middle incomes. About four in five households are owner-occupiers. The median resident is 48. Median household income lands at about £58,000. Settled, older than the national mean, comfortably off rather than wealthy.
The tenure picture is owner-occupier first and everything else after. About four in five households own. Roughly one in eight rents privately. Another small share rents from social landlords. The renter base is thin enough that the rental market behaves like a side door rather than the main route into the village. Most of the rental supply is at the smaller end of the stock, with the family-sized housing almost entirely held by owners.
The age profile skews older. The median resident is 48 years old. Only about one in five is in the prime working-age band between 25 and 44, which is below what you would find in a typical commuter dormitory. The picture is a village that has been quietly ageing through the post-war housing stock that defines its streets. About one in eight households is a single pensioner living alone, which is a meaningful slice of the resident base on its own.
Household income sits in the comfortable-middle band. The median household earns about £58,000 a year. That is enough to carry a Barnham mortgage on two incomes but not the kind of money that buys property anywhere by itself. Most households are working-age dual earners or settled retirees with the mortgage paid off, not single-income strivers chasing the village in. The combination of solid incomes and high home ownership is what underpins the steadiness of the place: people who are here are mostly here on purpose, with the money to stay.
Household composition runs to the suburban-village pattern. A quarter of all households is a single person, with a substantial slice of that group at pension age. Couples with children account for about one in five households. Single-parent households are about one in twelve. The remaining mix is couples without children, multi-generation arrangements, and shared adult households. Just two percent of households are recorded as overcrowded, which is a clear signal that most of the village has the room it wants. The household mix is what you find in a settled rural-village commuter belt that has not had a major build-out in decades.
The verdict is steady. A settled, mostly-owning population in its late forties, on comfortable middle incomes. The demographics line up with the housing stock and the village's pace exactly as you would expect.