Camden Town is lived in mostly by renters in their thirties, many of them graduates on good salaries, alongside a large share of council and housing association tenants. Fewer than a quarter own their home. Four in ten rent from a social landlord. The typical resident is in their early thirties. Half have a degree, and plenty of the rest live in a one-person flat.
About 23% of households own their home, about 35% rent privately and about 41% rent from a council or housing association. Social renting is the single largest tenure in Camden Town, which surprises anyone who only knows the place from the market stalls. The people who stay longest here tend to be the ones whose landlord is the council.
The Census puts the typical resident's age at 33, and about 34% of residents are between 25 and 44. That is a population built around the working years. For a place whose markets are aimed squarely at the young and alternative, the young people are mostly visitors, and the residents are the ones who go to work on Monday.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income across the area at about £73,900 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. On that money a household in plenty of places would be paying a mortgage. Here it is mostly paying a landlord.
The Census also counts about 39% of households as one person living alone, and about 10% of all households are a single pensioner, part of that same one-person group. Couples with dependent children make up about 11% of households and lone parents about 13%. Camden Town is mostly flats of one, with families a minority on both sides of the lone-parent line.
About 51% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree or equivalent, and about 14% have no formal qualifications at all. Only about 5% are full-time students, a small share for an area that includes part of Bloomsbury and Somers Town at its southern end. The universities are nearby. Their students mostly sleep somewhere else.
About 84% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Camden as a borough has a rate of deaths from preventable causes that compares better than the England average, and its smoking rate of about 12% is similar to England's. Those are borough-wide figures, attached to the authority as a whole.
About 2,290 people live in communal establishments such as student halls, hostels and care homes, as opposed to private households. That is a real slice of the population, and it pulls the area's shares in particular directions, adding residents to the counts who never appear in the tenure figures or the household make-up. The household figures describe the flats; the communal figure describes the rest of the street.
Camden Town's population is middling taken as a whole: well educated and comfortably paid at one end, renting almost entirely, and split between private and social tenancies in a way that keeps the place far more mixed than its prices would suggest.