Horndean is owner-occupiers who already moved. About four in five households own their homes. The median resident is 47. Around a quarter of households are single people. Settled, stable, and not particularly interested in change.
About four in five households own their homes outright or with a mortgage. That's a high ownership share by any measure, and well above the national mix. Private renting covers about one in ten households. Social renting picks up roughly the same share, taking total renting to about a fifth. The renters are a real minority here. The owner-occupier majority is the dominant fact about how the village holds together.
The median resident is 47, which puts Horndean in the older-than-average bracket. About one in five residents falls into the 25-to-44 prime working-age band, which is lower than you'd find in younger areas and consistent with the post-war commuter-village template. The age profile leans toward established households and post-retirement residents rather than the early-career renter mix typical of nearby cities. The village skews older not because it has rejected younger residents but because the housing stock and the price band attract people at a particular life stage and hold them there.
Typical household income comes in at about £61,000 a year before tax. That puts the village comfortably above the national average and inside the band where dual-income professionals make up the typical buyer profile. The village isn't wealthy in the Petersfield sense, but it isn't modest either. It is the income band where mortgages get paid, savings get built, and school uniforms get bought without anyone losing sleep over the cost.
About a quarter of households are single people. Roughly one in seven is a single pensioner, which is a meaningful share for a village this size and consistent with the older-leaning age profile. About one in five households is a couple with dependent children. Around one in twelve is a lone parent. The household types track what the age profile suggests: a mix of families, established couples, retirees and singletons, with the family-with-children share running smaller than the established-couple-and-pensioner share. The mix is balanced, but the balance leans older and more settled than the national average.
Horndean lands in the top end of affluence on the official deprivation measures and the top end of stability on the demographic ones. People come here. People stay here. People age here. The kind of demographic mix that quietly works without anyone needing to talk about it.