Working-age households, and about half of them are renting. Roughly a third of homes are rented privately and close to one in five is social housing. The typical resident is in their early thirties. A third of households are a couple with children. Whatever the word village suggests, it is not what the numbers here describe.
On tenure, Census 2021 puts owner-occupation at about 45% of households, private renting at about 34% and social renting at about 19%. That is a genuinely mixed housing market rather than a street of paid-off mortgages, and the social housing share in particular is higher than most people expect in a rural Devon setting. Roughly half the households here answer to a landlord of one kind or another.
The age profile is young by the standards of the county. Median age is 32, and about 36% of residents are aged between 25 and 44. Nobody is retiring here in numbers. This is a place full of people in the middle of working lives rather than at the end of them.
Household income runs at about £51,800 gross for the financial year to March 2023, modelled across the wider area rather than measured door to door. After tax, the same modelling puts net household income at about £39,700. The gross figure is the one that goes on the mortgage application. The other one is the one that does the shopping, and it describes a year that is already behind us rather than the current cost of anything.
Families are the dominant household shape. About 33% of households are a couple with children, and about 10% are lone-parent households. That is a school-run population, which fits an area where the primary and secondary options both sit a short drive away.
The rest of the make-up is smaller and worth reading carefully. About 21% of households are single people living alone, and about 9% are pensioners living alone, which is a subset of that figure rather than an addition to it. All of these shares come from the 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure on this page.
On qualifications, about 28% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 13% hold none at all, with full-time students making up about 2%. That is a mixed picture rather than a graduate enclave or its opposite, and it describes a working population with a wide spread of training behind it.
One structural fact changes how all of the above should be read. Of roughly 2,600 residents, 353 live in communal establishments rather than in private households, with about 2,250 living across the area's 870 households. Every household share on this page describes that second group. The population count and the household count are describing two different sets of people who happen to share a postcode.
The people here are the steady kind: working age, mixed tenure, families in the majority and incomes that hold up well for the area. It is a solid population profile with nothing fragile about it, which is more than most places this size can claim.