Holbury is lived in by people who bought, stayed and stopped refreshing property websites. Three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their late forties. About a quarter of households are one person living alone. Students hardly register. People who own here tend to stay.
About 76% of households own their home. Private renting accounts for about 13% and social renting for about 10%. The rental market is small because owners rarely leave, and investors hoping for a steady turnover of tenants will find this the wrong village for it.
The median age is about 48, and people aged 25 to 44 make up about 21% of residents. That's a middle-aged village. It's not a retirement colony, and nobody should expect a young-professional scene either. The people pushing buggies and the people collecting pensions both outnumber anyone commuting with a laptop and a flat white.
Median household income was about £55,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, a figure modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the area. It describes that year, not today. It's a comfortable figure for households that mostly bought years ago and aren't stretching to pay a big mortgage.
Every household and population share on this page comes from the 2021 Census. Couples with dependent children make up about 17% of households and lone parents about 9%. The village has families, but they share the streets with plenty of other kinds of household, so parents looking for a street full of school-age children will find a mix instead.
About 26% of households are one person living alone, and 14% of households are a single pensioner on their own, which is part of that 26% rather than an extra group. That's the natural result of a village people move into and don't leave. For a buyer, it means a steady trickle of homes coming to the market from long-term owners, which is a gentler way for a place to change than a developer turning up.
About 21% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 19% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 1%. It's a practical, working mix, not a university town or a commuter enclave, and anyone hoping for a graduate café culture will be disappointed.
Only 17 residents live in communal settings such as care homes rather than private households, too few to affect any of the shares above.
The people in Holbury are middling in the plainest sense. It's an ordinary, settled population of owners, neither especially well-off nor struggling, and they mostly stay once they arrive.