Owners, mostly, and ones who arrived some time ago. Around three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their early fifties. A quarter rent, split almost evenly between private landlords and social housing. This is a village of people who bought a house and then stopped moving, which is less common in Cornwall than the holiday-cottage version of the county suggests.
On tenure, Census 2021 puts about 74% of Illogan households in owner occupation, with about 13% renting privately and about 13% in social housing. That social share matters, because it is the part of the housing market that has not been converted into holiday accommodation, and it is why the village still has working households in it rather than shuttered second homes.
The age profile is older than the county's tourist image. The median age is 51, and only about 21% of residents are aged between 25 and 44. Those are the years when people are usually forming households and chasing jobs, and a good number of them are doing it somewhere else.
Household income, modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023, came to about £43,000 gross before tax, or roughly £34,000 after it. That describes that year rather than today, and it describes whole households rather than individual earners, which in a village where most households contain two working adults is the distinction that matters.
Households here skew small. About 29% are single-person households, and about 17% are pensioners living alone, who sit inside that single-person figure rather than alongside it. Couples with dependent children account for about 17%, and lone-parent households for about 8%.
What that adds up to is a village with a lot of people living quietly on their own in houses that were built for four. It also explains why the bungalow works here and why the school-run traffic is lighter than the size of the place implies.
On qualifications, about 27% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 20% hold none at all, with full-time students making up about 1%. The spread runs the full width rather than clustering at one end, and both ends of it live on the same streets rather than in separate halves of the village.
Health self-reports come out reasonably: about 77% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 7% as bad or very bad. Across the Cornwall local authority area, both smoking prevalence at about 12% and the preventable mortality rate are classed as similar to England as a whole. Those are county-level benchmarks rather than Illogan's own, and the honest reading is that nothing here stands out in either direction.
The people who live in Illogan are an ordinary Cornish population rather than a prosperous one, and the measures that rank neighbourhoods place it in the lower middle of the country without much movement either way. That is not a criticism of anybody living here. It is the reason a house costs what it does, and the reason the village has stayed a village rather than becoming a showroom.