Iver Heath is mostly home-owning households in middle age with comfortable incomes. Seven in ten own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Household incomes are healthy before tax. People here tend to buy a house, stay for the long haul and add rooms when they need them.
The 2021 Census is the source for every population figure here, and it covers Iver Heath and the surrounding villages. About 70% of households own their home, about 15% rent privately and about 13% rent from a council or housing association. Private renting is a small part of the market. Most people who move here come to buy.
The median age across the area is 43, and about 27% of residents are aged 25 to 44. Forty-three is about the age when people stop moving house and start building onto the one they have.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income across the area at about £68,000 a year before tax for the financial year to March 2023, falling to about £48,000 once tax is taken off. The gross figure sounds better, but the net figure is what pays the mortgage.
About 26% of households are one person living alone, and about 12% are a single pensioner living alone, which is part of that 26%. Couples with children make up about 21% of households and lone parents about 10%. More households are one person living alone than couples raising children, though at school-run time it feels the other way round.
About 38% of residents hold a degree, about 17% have no formal qualifications and about 1% are full-time students. The mix is wide, and it says nothing about who lives behind which front door. Few students live here, so the median age is set by people at work and their families.
About 85% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Across Buckinghamshire as a whole, deaths from preventable causes are below the England rate and the smoking rate, about 8%, is also better than England's. Those comparisons cover the whole county, so they describe Buckinghamshire and say nothing about the residents of any particular street.
Iver Heath's population is unremarkable and doing fine: homeowners in middle age on decent incomes, with few people at either end of the scale.