Settled owner-occupiers, mostly past forty. Two-thirds own their homes. Around a fifth rent privately. Nearly a third of households are a single person living alone. The people in their late twenties and thirties, the ones a village needs to keep a school full, are the group in shortest supply.
On tenure, about 67% of households own their home and around 20% rent from a private landlord, with roughly 13% renting socially. That ownership level is what gives the place its stability and also what makes it slow: houses here change hands rarely, and the people in them tend to stay.
The age profile follows. The median resident is 46, and only about 22% of residents are aged between 25 and 44. This is not a village that empties out during the day so much as one that never filled up with young commuters in the first place.
On money, modelled gross household income before tax averaged about £57,000 in the financial year to March 2023. That is a figure describing 2023 rather than today, it is modelled for the area rather than measured household by household, and it is income before anything has been taken off it.
Households skew small. Around 31% are a single person living alone, and about 14% are a pensioner living alone, which is a subset of that first group rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children make up roughly 20%, and lone parent households about 10%. All of these come from the 2021 census, which is the source for the population figures throughout this answer.
Qualifications split in two directions at once. About 36% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, while around 14% hold none at all, and about 2% are full-time students. That is a village with a professional cohort and a long-established working population sharing the same handful of streets, which is more interesting than a uniform one.
Health looks good on the self-reported measure: about 80% describe their health as good or very good, and around 6% as bad or very bad. Widening out to Cornwall as a whole, and measured against England rather than against the village, the local authority's preventable mortality rate is classed as similar to the England average, and its smoking rate, at about 12%, is likewise classed as similar. Those are county-level figures with a national benchmark attached, not a description of anyone in Chacewater.
Who lives here is the least flattering part of the picture, and not because of anyone in it: an ageing population, a thin working-age middle, and a lot of one-person households is a combination that puts the area in the lower half nationally on the measures that count. The upside is that people who arrive tend to stay, which is the reason the village looks as settled as it does.