Bordon is mostly young working families who own their homes. Six in ten own. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. A quarter of households are couples with children. The town was built for soldiers, and these days it's mostly people with mortgages.
About 10,380 people live in Bordon, in around 4,200 households, and every population figure here comes from the 2021 Census. About 63% of households own their home. Private renters make up about 15%, and social renters about 20%. That social-rented share is larger than the private one, which is unusual for Hampshire and doesn't show up in the brochures.
The median age is 36. About 33% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years of first mortgages, nursery fees and weekends spent at soft play. This isn't a town where people come to retire, and the demographics make that obvious.
Office for National Statistics modelling put typical household income at about £60,800 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That is a gross figure averaged across the area and a few years old now, so it describes households on steady working wages rather than anyone's current payslip.
Couples with dependent children make up about 25% of households, and lone parents about 11%. Around 25% of households are one person living alone, and about 9% are a single pensioner living alone, a group already counted within the one-person share. Put together, that makes Bordon a family town, with fewer lone pensioners than the villages around it would suggest.
About 29% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 16% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students account for about 2%, which fits a town with no university and no student lets. The mix is broad, from trade skills to degrees, which is what an old garrison town full of engineering training tends to leave behind.
Bordon is an ordinary working town that happens to be younger than most of its neighbours. It has families, mortgages and school runs, and not much else in the way of surprises.