Earl's Court is mostly young professionals who rent and live alone. Most households rent. Nearly half the homes have just one person in them. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties and has a degree. Children are scarce, and so are people who own the walls around them.
At the 2021 census, the source for every population figure on this page, only about 30% of Earl's Court's 16,588 residents' households owned their home. About 51% rented privately and about 19% rented from a social landlord. Most of the people here pay rent to someone else.
The median age is 36, and about 36% of residents are between 25 and 44. In Earl's Court that is the whole profile: people in the middle of their careers, busy with work, who haven't yet been pushed into a bigger flat further out.
Household income across the area was about £88,700 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023, a modelled figure from the Office for National Statistics. That is a comfortable gross income. Here it pays the rent and leaves most of these households a long way short of owning anything.
Single-person households make up about 48% of all homes. Couples with dependent children are about 11%, and lone parents about 6%. About 11% of households are one pensioner living alone, a group already counted within the single-person share. Most flats here have one name on the post.
About 63% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, and about 10% have no formal qualifications. Only about 2% are full-time students. Most of the qualifications here were earned somewhere else, and the area is where the graduates moved to afterwards.
About 89% of Earl's Court residents described their health as good or very good at the census. For the council area as a whole, Kensington and Chelsea's rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than the England average, and its smoking rate, about 8% of adults, is similar to England's.
Earl's Court is a better-than-average place in its makeup: educated, earning well and mostly healthy. The catch is that its residents tend to rent and to move on, and few of them stay long enough to own anything.