Clanfield is lived in mostly by settled, middle-aged homeowning families, the commuter-belt profile in about its purest form. This is a place people move to and then stay put: high ownership, comfortable incomes, and children filling the local schools. Renters are a small minority. Older residents and young families share the streets with the working professionals who empty the driveways every weekday morning. It is a stable, prosperous village that knows exactly what it is and feels no need to apologise for it.
Ownership is the defining fact. About eight in ten homes are owner-occupied, which is high by any yardstick and the clearest single signal of how rooted the place is. Private renting accounts for under one in ten households, with a similar slice in social housing, so the rental market here is a sideshow rather than a main event. People tend to own their front door, and to hang onto it for a good long while.
On age, the village sits squarely in the middle years. The typical resident is around forty-five, and a little under a quarter fall into the twenty-five to forty-four band that does most of the commuting and the child-rearing. This is neither a student town nor a retirement colony. It is the family-and-mortgage stretch of the age range, with the school run and a boot full of muddy football kit to prove it.
Incomes match the postcode. The typical household brings in something close to £69,000 a year, a comfortable figure that explains both the price of the houses and the number of cars parked outside them. This is professional, dual-income territory, the kind of place where the budget reaches to the loft conversion without anyone feeling the need to mention it at dinner.
The household make-up is textbook family village. Roughly a quarter of homes are couples with children, about one in five people live alone, and under one in ten are lone-parent households. A fair share are older people living on their own, around one in eight. It is a broad, ordinary spread tilted firmly toward families, with enough single and older residents to stop it becoming a monoculture of buggies and people carriers.
The verdict on who lives here is straightforward: comfortable, settled, and about as socially steady as English villages come. Homeowners who arrived, liked what they found, and unpacked for good. Nobody is merely passing through Clanfield, and that, in the end, is precisely the point.