Most Boreham residents are middle-aged homeowners on decent incomes. About seven in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Students hardly register. Nearly everyone here has already finished moving house.
At the 2021 Census, the source for every population figure on this page, about 70% of Boreham's 1,561 households owned their home. About 16% rented from a social landlord and about 13% from a private one. Private landlords are the smallest of the three groups, behind both owners and social housing.
The median age is 42, and about 27% of residents are aged 25 to 44. For most people here the mortgage is roughly half paid off.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income for the area around Boreham at about £77,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Before-tax income is the figure people quote at dinner parties.
About 30% of households are one person living alone, and about 13% of all households are pensioners living alone, who are part of that 30%. Couples with dependent children make up about 20% of households and lone parents about 11%. The couple with children that everyone pictures in a 1970s semi turns out to be one household in five.
About 30% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree-level qualification, and about 16% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 2% of residents. Boreham is a working village, not a student one.
Overall, the people of Boreham are ordinary in the middle-of-the-road sense. They own their homes, sit in the middle of the age range and live in every kind of household, and most of them are staying put.