Gamlingay is mostly older households who own their homes and stay in them. About three in four own. The typical resident is nearly 50. People living alone outnumber couples with children. Most of the village arrived, stayed and stopped moving a long time ago.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 census. About 75% of households own their home, about 11% rent privately and about 13% rent from a social landlord. Private renting is a small corner of the market, and it shows in how few homes come up to let.
The median age in Gamlingay is 49, and about 21% of residents are aged 25 to 44. People in the years when they start careers and families are a minority here. The village is still busy, but its weekend plans are about the garden more than the pub.
The Office for National Statistics models household income here at about £61,800 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across a wider area that takes in the village. Gross means before the taxman takes his share, and the figure describes a year that has since passed. Couples where both work do well on it, and a pensioner living alone will look nothing like it.
About 28% of households are one person living alone, and within that, about 16% of all households are a single pensioner. Couples with children make up about 20% of households and lone parents about 7%. Those figures overlap with the age profile. Many of the people living alone are people whose children have grown up and moved out.
About 30% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree-level qualification, about 19% have no formal qualifications and about 1% are full-time students. The village has plenty of graduates and plenty of people who left school with nothing on paper, and neither group dominates. Full-time students barely show up, and the few teenagers here are mostly heading off to university.
On paper, Gamlingay is an average mix of residents: comfortable, older and mostly owner-occupied, with a qualifications profile that leans neither way.