Haddenham is home mostly to settled, well-qualified homeowners in middle age, with a fair number of families and plenty of retired people living alone. Three in four own their home. The typical resident is in their late forties. Almost half hold a degree. Students hardly figure, and anyone in their twenties is in a small minority.
The figures cover Haddenham and the surrounding villages, from Long Crendon to Kingsey, and come from the 2021 census unless stated otherwise. About 76% of households own their home, about 13% rent privately and about 10% rent from a social landlord. Houses here change hands when their owners move into a care home or a smaller house.
The median age is 47, and about 22% of residents are aged 25 to 44. People are generally old enough to have finished one career, and many of them are now on the parish council.
The Office for National Statistics models typical gross household income at about £75,000 a year, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. After tax the figure comes to about £52,000. The first number is what people mention at dinner, and the second is what actually pays the mortgage.
About 25% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% are pensioners living alone, who are part of that 25%. Couples with children make up about 23% of households and lone parents about 7%. The primary schools are full and the bungalows are occupied, often by the parents and the grandparents of the same family.
About 46% of residents hold a degree, about 12% have no qualifications and about 1% are full-time students. With a degree-holder in nearly half of all homes, most parish meetings include at least one person who has read the planning guidance more closely than the planning officer has.
About 87% of residents described their health as good or very good. Buckinghamshire as a whole does better than England on deaths from preventable causes, and on smoking, where about 8% of adults smoke. Those two figures cover the whole county, but the village's own self-reported health points the same way.
Haddenham's residents are comfortably off, healthy and well qualified, and they have no intention of moving.