Great Notley is home to families who own their houses and intend to stay in them. Eight in ten households own. The typical resident is in their early forties. Incomes are comfortable. Very few people rent, and almost nobody is a student.
At the 2021 census, which supplies every population figure on this page, about 82% of Great Notley's households owned their home. Private renters made up about 10% and social renters about 7%. A rental board on a Great Notley close is about as rare as a blue plaque, and the village has a good excuse for lacking both.
The median age is about 42, and people aged 25 to 44 make up about 22% of residents. That profile belongs to parents somewhere in the middle of the job, with mortgages part-paid and children past the pushchair. Estates that were sold in one wave tend to grow older in one wave, and Great Notley's first buyers are well into theirs.
The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £70,800 a year for the area in the financial year to March 2023. The figure is a few years old and counts what households earned before the taxman took his share, so it overstates what lands in the account each month. Even so, it describes two-income households with room for a car each and a mortgage on a detached house.
Families set the tone. About 30% of households are couples with dependent children and about 10% are lone parents. Single-person households make up about 18%, and about 9% are pensioners living alone, a group counted within that 18%. A household of one is the exception on streets built around four bedrooms and a double driveway.
About 30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, about 13% have no formal qualifications, and only about 3% of residents are full-time students. With no college or university setting the age of the place, the teenagers who do want a degree have to leave Great Notley to get one, and most of the adults here already sorted that question out somewhere else.
Great Notley's residents are a settled, comfortable and largely family population, and on the measures that describe a neighbourhood's wellbeing, it comes out well above the ordinary.