Eynsford is home to well-off owner-occupiers, most of them in the second half of their working lives or past it. About eight in ten own their home. The typical resident is past fifty. Incomes are comfortable and degrees are common. It is a village of people who arrived, paid off a good part of the house and stayed.
At the 2021 census, Eynsford had 1,676 residents in 731 households, and about 79% of those households owned their home. About 10% rented privately, and about another 10% rented from a council or housing association. Renters are a small minority on both counts, so most of the village answers to a mortgage lender or nobody at all.
The median resident is 51, and only about 18% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years when most people buy a first home and start a family. Eynsford's population is mostly people who did both somewhere else and then moved here.
Household income is comfortable. The Office for National Statistics models typical gross household income, before tax, for the area around Eynsford at about £64,000 for the financial year to March 2023, and its estimate after tax and housing-related deductions is about £44,000. Both are modelled for a wider statistical area and are now a few years old. A buyer budgeting from the higher figure is budgeting money the household never actually sees.
The household mix is split between the young families and the people who raised theirs. The 2021 census, the source of every population figure here, puts couples with children at home at about 18% of households, the same share as pensioners living on their own. About 29% of all households are one person living alone, with those single pensioners counted inside that figure, and lone parents make up about 6%. For every household with school-age children, there is one with nobody to do the school run.
Qualifications run high. About 37% of Eynsford's residents aged 16 and over hold a degree, about 14% have no formal qualifications and only about 1% are full-time students. Children who grow up here usually leave for university and come back, if they come back at all, in their fifties.
Eynsford's residents are a comfortable, settled, older crowd, and the village is better off than most. Younger buyers will find themselves a minority.