Enfield Highway is mostly young renters, plus a lot of families with children, many of them with one parent at home. Fewer than half the households own their home. The typical resident is in their early thirties. Lone parents outnumber couples with children. Incomes look reasonable on paper, but not once tax and rent have come out.
At the 2021 Census, the source for every population figure here, about 42% of households owned their home. Another 32% rented privately and 24% rented from the council or a housing association. With renters in the majority, the people on most streets change more often than the bricks do.
The median resident is 33, and about 28% of people are aged 25 to 44, the years when most people are working, renting, and having children, often all three at once.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income here, before tax, at about £62,000 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across nine neighbourhood areas. Its after-tax figure for the same period is about £45,000. That is the one the rent comes out of.
Households here come in a wide mix. About 24% are one person living alone, and within that about 7% are a pensioner on their own. Couples with children make up about 19% of households, and lone parents about 26%. That is a lot of households where one adult does the school run, the shopping and the earning. With a primary school about a seven-minute walk away on average, at least the school run is short.
About 29% of adults hold a degree, and about 28% have no formal qualifications. Only about 3% are full-time students. With roughly as many graduates as people with no qualifications, the area houses both groups in about equal numbers.
About 83% of residents described their health as good or very good at the Census, and about 6% as bad or very bad. Across the London Borough of Enfield, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than the England benchmark, and the borough's smoking rate is similar to England's. Those borough figures cover far more people than live in this neighbourhood, and they put the area's health in a better light than its income does.
Measured on income and how hard-pressed households are, the profile here is poor: young, mostly renting, often with one parent bringing up children, and stretched by the cost of housing. It is a younger, busier place than its old road and lock suggest.