Homerton is young, renting and qualified. Most households rent, and about half of those rent from a council or housing association. The typical resident is in their early thirties. About half hold a degree. Owners are few, so a buyer will be one of a small minority on the street.
The 2021 Census, the source for every population figure here, counted about 45,000 people in roughly 18,200 households. About 23% of households owned their home, about 25% rented privately and about 49% rented from a council or housing association. Homerton takes its name from the farm of a woman called Hunburh, and she remains one of the few landowners in its history that anyone has heard of.
The median age is 33, and about 40% of residents are between 25 and 44. Most of the area is the age where people are building a career and finding a flat in the same year, and many of them haven't yet got round to buying one.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income at about £67,000 a year before tax, in the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's small districts. That's a household figure, so in many homes it's two salaries, and it's a few years old. It looks comfortable until you set it against the price of a flat in this part of London.
About 32% of households are one person living alone, and about 7% are a pensioner living alone, a group already counted in the 32%. About 14% are couples with children and about 19% are lone parents with children. With more single-parent households than two-parent families, a lot of homes here are run on one income.
About 50% of residents hold a degree or equivalent and about 17% have no qualifications at all. Only about 3% are full-time students. Graduates who've stayed on and long-standing residents without qualifications share the same streets, and the average describes neither group very well.
About 84% of residents described their health as good or very good, and about 6% as bad or very bad. For the London Borough of Hackney as a whole, smoking runs at about 15% of adults and deaths from preventable causes at about 156 per 100,000, and the national health benchmarks put both close to England's averages. Those are borough figures, so they say how Hackney compares with the country, not how Homerton's streets do.
The make-up of the neighbourhood is the weak point for a buyer: owner-occupiers are a small minority, most homes are let by councils, housing associations or private landlords, and anyone buying here is joining a street where few neighbours own their homes.