People who have already arrived somewhere, in both senses. Three quarters own their homes. The typical resident is in their fifties. Nearly a third of households are one person living alone, and a good share of those are pensioners. This is not a place people move to in order to get started; it is where they move once the getting-started is over.
On tenure, about 75% of homes here are owner-occupied, with roughly 16% rented privately. Ownership at that level shapes everything else on this page, because owners move less often, improve more, and vote on planning applications with feeling. It also means the private rental market is small, and small markets are unforgiving if you are trying to get into one.
The age profile is the clearest signal. The median resident is about 53, and only around 17% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 band, which is the age range that normally supplies a place with its young families, its pub trade and its workforce. Just over 4,100 people live here in total. The shape of that population is closer to a retirement coast than to a commuter belt, and nothing in the rest of the data argues with it.
Household income, modelled for the financial year to March 2023, came to roughly £45,600 gross before tax. That is a figure for an area where a large share of residents are past their earning peak and living on assets rather than salaries, which is why income here tells you rather less about spending power than it would somewhere younger.
On household make-up, the 2021 Census records about 31% of households as one person living alone, of which roughly 19% of all households are a single pensioner. Those two figures overlap rather than stack. Couples with dependent children account for about 14%, and lone-parent households for around 10%. So the modal household here is one person, which is worth knowing before buying the four-bedroom place on the assumption the street will be full of families.
Qualifications run in two directions at once. About 31% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and roughly 16% hold none at all, with full-time students at around 2%. That is a genuinely mixed picture rather than a uniform one, and it reflects a place that has absorbed incomers with professional backgrounds into a population that was already here doing other things.
Health reads well. Around 80% of residents describe their health as good or very good, with about 6% reporting it as bad or very bad, which is a solid result for a population with this age profile. Across the wider Cornwall council area, smoking rates at about 12% and preventable mortality both sit similar to England as a whole. Those two are council-area figures with an England benchmark rather than measurements of this village, so read them as the regional weather rather than the local forecast.
The population here is comfortable, settled and older than average, which is neither a compliment nor a criticism but does determine what daily life feels like. Middling on the wider measures of how people are doing, and unmistakably a place where the next generation has mostly moved somewhere they can afford.