Deptford's residents are mostly young renters, plenty of them with degrees. Three households in four rent, and social tenants outnumber homeowners. The typical resident is in their early thirties. Half the adults have a degree. Homeowners are the minority here.
At the 2021 Census, which is the source for every population figure on this page, about 24% of Deptford households owned their home. About 34% rented privately and about 38% rented from a council or housing association. Private and social renters each outnumber the owners. Deptford is a neighbourhood run mostly by landlords, and a good share of those landlords are public bodies.
The median age is about 32, and about 44% of residents are aged 25 to 44. Deptford is mostly people in the middle of their working lives. Retirement mostly happens somewhere else.
The Office for National Statistics models average household income here at about £74,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. It is an average across a neighbourhood where well-paid private tenants and social tenants on far smaller incomes live a street apart. The figure falls somewhere between those groups and describes very few actual households.
About 33% of households are one person living alone, and about 5% are a single pensioner, who are included in that 33%. Couples with dependent children make up about 11% of households, and lone parents about 15%. In Deptford, lone-parent households outnumber couples with children. Neighbours here are more likely to be single people than families.
About 53% of residents aged 16 and over have a degree or higher, and about 14% have no qualifications at all. Full-time students are only about 4% of residents, even with Goldsmiths and Laban close by. People with degrees far outnumber people still studying for one, so many graduates stay on in Deptford after they qualify.
About 86% of Deptford residents described their health as good or very good in the census. Lewisham's preventable mortality rate is similar to England's, and so is its smoking rate, at about 9% of adults across the borough. On those two measures the borough is close to England's average.
Deptford's mix of people is middling. It is young, highly qualified and mostly renting, and almost nobody stays long enough to own.