Doddinghurst is home to people who own their house, are around fifty and have no plans to leave. Nearly nine in ten households own their home. Private renting barely exists. The typical resident is fifty. In this village, settling in is the second half of a life, not the first.
At the 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure in this answer, about 86% of Doddinghurst's households owned their home. About 5% rented privately and about 8% rented from a social landlord. Social landlords house more of the village than every private landlord combined.
The median age is 50, and only about 19% of residents are between 25 and 44. The age profile looks like a village where the parents stayed and the children moved somewhere they could afford.
Modelled household income across the area averaged about £70,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, so the figure describes a few years ago, not today. That is a comfortable income for a village whose typical resident, at fifty, is nearer the end of a working life than the start.
Family households are a minority. About 22% of households are couples with dependent children, and about 8% are lone parents.
At the other end, about 21% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% are a pensioner living alone, a group counted within that 21%. The house with a trampoline in the garden and the bungalow with one name on the doorbell are about equally common.
About 27% of adults hold a degree, about 18% have no formal qualifications, and full-time students make up about 1% of residents. Doddinghurst has no term time.
Doddinghurst is home to an established, owner-occupying population with money and space. Younger buyers coming in will be in the minority, but they will not be short of neighbours who know how the place runs.