Bushey is mostly middle-aged homeowners, well qualified and comfortably paid. Most households own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. About four in ten adults have a degree. There are hardly any students. People mostly come to Bushey once they are earning a salary and planning to stay.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 census. About 69% of Bushey households own their home, about 17% rent privately and about 12% rent from a social landlord. Bushey built its first council houses in the early 1920s, and about one household in eight still rents from a social landlord.
The median age is 42, and about 25% of residents are aged 25 to 44. Bushey's typical resident is old enough to have a mortgage and still some way from paying it off.
The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income at about £70,000 for the financial year to March 2023, before tax and averaged across Bushey's neighbourhoods. That is comfortable money, a few years out of date and quoted before the taxman has taken his share.
Couples with dependent children make up about 23% of households and lone parents about 11%. People living alone account for about 27%, and that includes the 14% of all households who are pensioners living on their own. Bushey has always housed whoever the jobs nearby brought in, from the workers Watford's railway-era industry needed to the service families who worked at the defence sites in Stanmore and Northwood.
About 42% of residents aged 16 and over have a degree-level qualification, about 14% have no qualifications, and about 2% are full-time students. With so few students, Bushey is a town people move to after they have finished studying.
The people are one of the steadier things about Bushey: mostly owners and earners, with enough families, people living alone and pensioners that no single type dominates the town.