People who work for a living and mostly own the house they do it in. Just over half of households own, and a third rent from a private landlord. The typical resident is in their early forties. Most report themselves in good health. This is a village of permanent residents rather than a place people pass through on the way to somewhere with a sea view, which is genuinely rare in this county.
On tenure, about 55% of households own their home and roughly 34% rent privately. That is a working balance rather than a landlord town, and it means the street you buy into is largely made up of people who are also stuck with the decision. Renting a third of the stock in Cornwall is unremarkable. Owning the other half in a village nobody markets is the more interesting half of that sentence.
The age profile is squarely middle. The median resident is 41, and about 26% of the population sits in the 25 to 44 band. That is not a retirement village and not a student one. It is the age range that buys three-bedroom houses and worries about the school run, which matches the stock almost exactly.
Household income runs to roughly £42,700 a year gross, before tax, on the modelled figures for the financial year to March 2023. Around £34,100 of that lands after tax. Both describe that year rather than today, and both are modelled for the area rather than counted door to door, so treat them as the shape of local earnings rather than a payslip.
Families are here in ordinary numbers. About 17% of households are couples with children and roughly 12% are lone parents, which together account for a substantial share of the three-bedroom houses that make up most of the village.
The wider make-up, from the 2021 Census, which is the source for every population figure on this page, shows about 28% of households are one person living alone, with roughly 11% being a single pensioner living alone. That pensioner share sits inside the single-person figure rather than alongside it. What that adds up to is a village with a lot of solo households in a housing stock built for families, which is the quiet demographic fact behind a lot of rural bedroom counts.
On qualifications, about 18% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, roughly 27% hold none, and about 1% are full-time students. That is a working population rather than a graduate one, and the mix reflects an economy built on trades, industry and services rather than offices.
Health looks reasonable on the residents' own account: roughly 77% describe themselves in good or very good health, and about 7% in bad or very bad health. At local-authority level, where the comparison exists, Cornwall's smoking rate of about 12% is similar to England's, and its preventable mortality rate is also similar to England's. Those are county-wide figures with an England benchmark attached rather than measurements of this village.
The community measures are the weakest part of Bugle's case, and the honest way to put it is that the place carries the economics of an industry that scaled back rather than the economics of the Cornwall in the brochures. Nobody living here needs telling that. It is worth a buyer knowing it before they arrive expecting the county's other version of itself.