Brimscombe and Thrupp is mostly settled homeowners in middle age, comfortably off and well educated. Eight in ten own their home. The typical resident is about fifty. Nearly half the adults have a degree. Very few people are in their twenties.
The 2021 census, the source for every population figure on this page, counted about 3,770 people in 1,585 households. About 81% of households own their home, about 10% rent privately and about 8% rent from a social landlord. When something does come up to rent here, there are far more tenants after it than homes on offer.
The typical resident is 50, and only about 18% of residents are aged 25 to 44. Young adults are scarce, and the ones here are outnumbered by people whose children have already left home.
The Office for National Statistics models household income at about £59,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the neighbourhoods that cover the village. That is enough for a valley where the median house costs several times the average salary, and most of the people living here bought in some time ago.
About 21% of households are couples with dependent children, and about 8% are lone parents. With families that thin on the ground, the two village primaries draw most of their pupils from the same few streets.
About 24% of households are one person living alone, and about 12% are a pensioner living alone, a group already included in that 24%. The single-person households are mostly older residents who stayed after the family left.
About 47% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 10% have no qualifications and about 2% are full-time students. In 1815 John Lewis invented a machine at Thrupp to shear the nap off cloth, and the valley went on making its living with its hands for most of two centuries. Now it is home to a lot of degree-holders, many of them working from home in houses that once belonged to mill workers.
The population is one of the village's strengths, with settled homeowners, comfortable incomes and long tenures. Young buyers and renters will find fewer people their own age here than in Stroud.