Enfield Town is mostly working families in their thirties and forties, many of them raising children with less money to spare than the house prices suggest. Just under six in ten households own their home. A quarter rent privately. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Lone parents are almost as common as couples with children.
At the 2021 census, the source for every population figure on this page, about 58% of households owned their home, about 25% rented privately and about 16% rented from a council or housing association. Most households own, and a sizeable rented minority lives alongside them.
The median age is 38, and about 28% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That is a population still in the middle of mortgages, careers and school runs, mostly well short of retirement.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £69,700 a year for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's neighbourhoods. As an average, it mixes comfortable two-income households with households living on much less. Few of them will feel the figure describes them.
About 26% of households are one person living alone, and about 11% are a pensioner living alone, a group included in the first figure. Couples with dependent children make up about 20% of households and lone-parent households about 19%. In Enfield Town, the school run is done by one adult almost as often as by two.
About 36% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 20% have no formal qualifications, and about 2% of residents are full-time students. That is a wide spread, with graduates and residents with no qualifications in roughly similar numbers. Students hardly figure here, so they have no real effect on the town's age profile or its rents.
About 84% of residents described their health as good or very good. For the London Borough of Enfield as a whole, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than England's, and the smoking rate, at about 14%, is similar to England's. The White House on Silver Street, once the home of Joseph Whitaker, the publisher who founded Whitaker's Almanack, is now a doctors' surgery.
On the social measures this page uses, Enfield Town comes out below average. The people here are working and raising families, and the figures show that many households are stretched.