East Finchley is mostly well-qualified professionals in mid-career, with homeowners only just outnumbering renters. Six in ten adults hold a degree. The typical resident is about forty. Households are fairly evenly split between people living alone, couples and families. Health is good. Most residents are past the student years and some way off retirement.
At the 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure here, East Finchley had about 26,800 residents in about 10,700 households. About 54% of households owned their home. About 29% rented privately and about 17% rented from the council or a housing association. Owners and renters are close enough in number that both are in the room whenever leaseholds and service charges come up.
The median resident is 40, and about 29% of residents are aged 25 to 44. With the median sitting at forty, much of the area is dealing with a mortgage and a school run at the same time.
The Office for National Statistics models household income for each neighbourhood, and averaged across East Finchley's it came to about £90,000 a year before tax in the year to March 2023. Because it is gross and modelled and dates from the year to March 2023, it is a rough guide to spending power and not a household budget. It also averages the large houses near the Suburb with the flats over the High Road, and no household earns the average.
About 29% of households are one person living alone, and about 13% of households are a single pensioner, who are included in that 29%. Couples with dependent children make up about 23% of households, and lone parents about 10%. With people living alone in larger numbers than couples raising children, the one-bed flats and the four-bed houses here both have plenty of takers.
About 60% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, about 11% have no qualifications and about 2% are full-time students. For a district this close to central London, there are very few students. Planning objections here tend to arrive properly paragraphed.
About 87% of residents described their health as good or very good at the census, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Barnet's rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than England's, and its smoking rate is similar to England's. Those last two are borough figures, and Barnet covers far more than East Finchley.
East Finchley's population is better off than average. It is educated, healthy and at the busiest stage of life, and owners and renters are almost evenly matched.