Denham is mostly middle-aged homeowners, with more social housing mixed in than the village's looks would suggest. Around two-thirds of households own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Four in ten adults have a degree. One household in eight rents from a social landlord. The village has a mix of people, and it doesn't advertise it.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 census, which counted 1,977 people in 802 households. About 68% of households own their home, about 15% rent privately and about 13% rent from a council or housing association. The private and social rented shares are close to level, which is unusual in a village where houses sell for golf-club money. The semis and the social housing are a short walk apart.
The typical Denham resident is 43, and about 26% of people are aged 25 to 44. It is a village in mid-career, with fewer young adults than a town but plenty of people still working and paying a mortgage.
Gross household income for the area around Denham was modelled at about £59,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is an average across a wider statistical area, so it smooths over the difference between the large detached houses and the social housing. It also misses the earners who made their money years ago and now spend it on the garden.
About 27% of households are one person living alone, and roughly 11% of all households are a pensioner living alone, a group counted inside that 27%. Couples with dependent children make up about 20% of households, and lone parents about 11%. The school-run families and the solo pensioners come close to filling the same number of homes. Both groups have good reason to care what happens to the bus timetable.
About 40% of adults hold a degree-level qualification and about 15% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 2% of residents. So the village houses both graduates and people who left school early, and the student share is too small to change anything. Denham's young people go elsewhere to study.
About 85% of residents described their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Buckinghamshire as a whole does better than England on preventable deaths, and the county's smoking rate of about 8% is also better than the English average. Those county figures describe Buckinghamshire, not this village, and they say nothing about why any one person here is healthy or not.
Denham's population is middle of the road. It is a settled, mixed village of owners and renters, graduates and non-graduates, families and people living alone, and no single group dominates.