Coxheath is lived in by settled homeowners in the middle of life. Three in four own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Students barely register. It's the demographic equivalent of a sensible estate car: dependable and unlikely to surprise anyone.
About 76% of households own their home. About 10% rent privately and about 12% rent from a social landlord. The private rental market is too small to set the tone. Coxheath is a village of mortgages and paid-off mortgages, and the "To Let" sign is a rare sight.
The median age is 43, and about 25% of residents are aged 25 to 44. This isn't a retirement village and it isn't a starter-home suburb. It sits in between, where the conversation at the school gate turns to extensions and pensions in roughly equal measure.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income, before tax, at around £67,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That's a modelled figure for that year, not a payslip from today. In practice it looks like two incomes, a mortgage that's under control, and an argument about whether the kitchen needs doing again.
Every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 Census. About 25% of households are one person living alone, and within that, about 15% of all households are a pensioner living alone. Couples with children make up about 21% of households and lone parents about 10%. Estate agents will call Coxheath family-friendly. With one household in five a couple with children and one in four someone living alone, "mixed" is the honest word.
About 27% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 19% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 1%. With no university nearby and no student housing, a student in Coxheath is usually someone's child home for the summer.
Coxheath is middling on who lives here, in a good way: a steady, home-owning, middle-aged village with no dominant type. If you want a scene, look elsewhere. If you want neighbours who'll still be here in ten years, it does the job.