Collier Row is home to working families who own their houses and mostly stay put. Seven in ten own their homes. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Couples with children make up about as many households as people living alone. It's an ordinary outer London suburb, and the people living in it seem content with that.
About 71% of households in Collier Row own their home. About 13% rent privately and about 15% rent from a social landlord, so the renters are split almost evenly between the two. Around 9,180 households live here, and most of them are paying off a mortgage on a 1930s semi or have finished paying it off.
All the population figures on this page come from the 2021 Census. The median age is 39, and about 27% of residents are between 25 and 44, the years when people tend to buy a house, have children and find out how much a loft conversion costs. With about 24,900 residents in total, the area is mostly made up of parents, and the grandparents usually live a few streets away.
The Office for National Statistics models typical gross household income here at about £68,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area. That figure is a few years old and is counted before tax and National Insurance. It describes a household with two people working.
Families make up a large part of Collier Row's households. About 22% are couples with children, and about 16% are lone parents.
About 22% of households are one person living alone, and about 12% of all households are a pensioner living alone, a group already counted inside that 22%. That makes for streets where the family next door and the widower over the road have both been there for years, and the widower is the one who takes the parcels in.
About 26% of residents hold a degree, about 22% have no formal qualifications, and fewer than 2% are full-time students. With so few students, there are no shared houses, no rental market built around a university term and no student nights. The few who do go to university mostly leave Collier Row to do it.
About 83% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Havering, preventable deaths run at a rate better than the England average, and the borough's smoking rate of about 8% is similar to England's.
The people of Collier Row are as middling as the place they live in, which mostly means families who own their homes, earn a fair wage and keep a tidy front garden.