Edgware is home to younger working families, more than the semis out front would suggest. Barely half of households own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Couples with children and people living alone each make up about a fifth of households. The interwar houses look settled and middle-aged, and the people in them mostly aren't.
All population figures here come from the 2021 Census, which counted about 75,500 people in 25,283 households. About 52% of households own their home, about 30% rent privately and about 16% rent from a council or housing association. With nearly half the town renting, plenty of the semis have a landlord's name on the deeds.
The typical Edgware resident is about 37, and about 30% of the population is aged 25 to 44. This is a town of people at the stage of commuting, raising children and paying off mortgages, without many people around retirement age to balance them out.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income at about £72,600 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area. That is a gross figure from several years ago, and in a borough where the typical home costs over half a million it buys less than it sounds. Back in the nineteenth century the parish was already splitting into an opulent north and a workaday south, and an average across the whole area still smooths over both ends.
About 22% of households are couples with dependent children and about 14% are lone parents. About 22% are one person living alone, and pensioners living alone are about 9% of all households, part of that 22%. About 15% of households are overcrowded, which is the other side of a town where children outnumber spare bedrooms.
Qualifications are spread wide. About 40% of adults have a degree and about 21% have no formal qualifications at all, so Edgware has plenty at both ends and not much in the middle. Only about 3% of residents are full-time students, because the town has no university.
About 85% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across the London Borough of Barnet, preventable deaths run better than the England rate, and the borough's smoking rate, at about 9%, is similar to England's. Those comparisons describe the whole borough, and Edgware's own numbers aren't broken out from it.
Edgware is a younger, renting, mixed suburb that is under more strain than its tidy streets suggest. It ranks below average on the measures that describe who lives here, mostly because of how many of its households are stretched.