Working households who bought here and stayed. Two-thirds own their homes. The typical resident is in their early forties. A quarter of households are one person, and students are close to nonexistent. This is a place people settle in rather than pass through, which is either the appeal or the warning depending on what you are after.
On tenure, about 66% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage, and about 21% rent privately. Ownership at that level in Cornwall is not nothing. It means most of the street has a stake in the place, and it means the rental market here is a modest sideline rather than the main event.
The age profile sits squarely in the middle of life. The median resident is 42, and about 25% of people are aged between 25 and 44. That is a working-age population with children attached, rather than a retirement village or a commuter dormitory full of people under thirty-five.
Income, from the modelled Office for National Statistics estimates, came in at around £43,000 for a typical household in the financial year to March 2023. That figure is gross, before any tax or national insurance comes off, and it describes that year rather than today. It is the number that explains most of the housing decisions made here.
Family structures follow the pattern. The 2021 Census, which is the source for every population figure on this page, records about 22% of households as couples with dependent children and about 10% as lone parents. That is a substantial share of households with school runs in them, which is why the primaries matter as much as they do locally.
The rest of the household mix is the part that surprises people. About 24% of households are one person living alone, and about 11% are pensioners living alone, that second group being part of the first rather than an addition to it. Put next to the couples with children, it gives a fuller picture: a mix of family homes and single households, with the older end of the single group concentrated in the bungalow stock that this part of Cornwall built rather a lot of.
On qualifications, about 22% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 20% hold none at all, with full-time students at about 2%. That is a genuinely mixed picture rather than a graduate enclave or its opposite, and it reflects a local economy built on trades, clay, tourism and increasingly on people working from a spare room.
Health self-reports are reasonable, with about 80% of residents describing their health as good or very good and about 6% as bad or very bad. On the wider council-area measures, which cover Cornwall as a whole rather than this village, smoking prevalence sits at about 12% and is rated similar to England, and the preventable mortality rate is also rated similar to England. Those are county figures and should not be pinned to any particular street.
As a population this is unremarkable in the literal sense, and on the broader measures of local wellbeing it is one of the weaker parts of the picture here rather than one of the stronger ones. What it is, reliably, is a place where people own their homes, work locally, and have no particular intention of leaving.