Greenhill belongs to settled homeowners who have mostly finished moving house. Three in four own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Students barely register. Nobody here is passing through on the way to somewhere better.
Every figure on this page comes from the 2021 Census unless it says otherwise, and it covers about 7,390 people in about 2,920 households. About 75% of households own their home, outright or with a mortgage. About 13% rent privately and about 10% rent from a council or housing association. That's a suburb where the "For Sale" boards outnumber the "To Let" ones, and the letting agents have noticed.
The median age is 43. About 23% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years when people buy first homes, start families and complain about childcare costs. That share sits alongside a large older population and a solid block of school-age children, which is the usual shape of a suburb of bungalows and family semis. The bungalows are not there for the first-time buyers.
Household income averaged about £52,400 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, a figure the Office for National Statistics models across the area rather than counts house by house. That's gross income, and it describes three years ago rather than today's pay packets. It fits a place of two-earner households, retired couples with decent pensions, and a mortgage that's either nearly paid or already gone.
The household mix is broad. About 24% of households are one person living alone, and within that group, about 14% of all households are a single pensioner. Couples with children make up about 22%, and lone parents about 11%. It isn't a retirement village and it isn't a nursery. The school run and the bowls club are both running at full strength, often on the same road.
On qualifications, about 23% of residents hold a degree, about 21% have no formal qualifications, and only about 2% are full-time students. That spread describes a place where people learned on the job as often as in a lecture hall, and where a university town's student lets have not arrived. The student shuttle bus is someone else's problem.
Only 19 people live in communal settings such as care homes, so the shares above describe private households almost entirely.
Greenhill's residents make up an ordinary, settled suburb, neither well-heeled nor hard up, and that middling profile is exactly what most of them moved here to find.