People who have finished doing whatever it was they did. Close to nine in ten households own their home. The median resident is fifty-nine. A quarter of households are one person living alone, and most of those are pensioners. This is not a place where careers happen. It is a place careers get quietly retired into, with a view of the water.
The tenure split is about as lopsided as tenure gets. The 2021 census, which is the source for the population figures throughout this answer, put owner-occupation at roughly 88% of households, with 8% renting privately and 4% in social housing. A rental market barely exists here, largely because almost nothing comes up. People arrive, and then they stay until somebody else handles the paperwork.
The age profile follows directly. The median age is 59, and only about 12% of residents fall in the 25 to 44 band that most villages rely on to run the football club and fill the school gates. That is not a criticism of anyone living here. It is simply the shape of the place, and it is worth knowing before you picture a street full of young families.
On money, modelled household income for this area came to roughly £57,000 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That describes incomes three years ago rather than today, and it measures earnings rather than wealth. In a village where most people own outright, earnings are the less interesting half of the story anyway.
Households here skew small and settled. About 25% are a single person living alone, and 16% of all households are a pensioner living alone, which is a subset of that first figure rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children account for roughly 15%, and lone parents about 4%. There are children in Feock. There are just not many of them, and they are outnumbered several times over by people who raised theirs somewhere else.
Education levels sit high. Around 47% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, about 9% hold none at all, and roughly 1% are full-time students. That combination describes professionals who trained elsewhere and moved here later, alongside families who have farmed or worked the same patch for generations. Both live on the same lanes and neither is the story on its own.
Health reporting is good. About 83% of residents describe their health as good or very good, with roughly 3% reporting it as bad or very bad, which is a strong return for an area with this age profile. At the wider Cornwall level, preventable mortality sits similar to the England average and smoking prevalence runs to about 12%, again similar to England. Those are council-area figures covering the whole county rather than measurements taken in this parish.
The people here are one of the more reassuring things about the place: settled, healthy, comfortable and long-established, with the obvious caveat that anyone under forty will need a reason to be here beyond the scenery.