Kennington is mostly homeowners in midlife and beyond, with good qualifications and comfortable incomes. Eight in ten own their home. The typical resident is about fifty. Four in ten adults have a degree. It's a village of people who arrived, bought and stayed.
At the 2021 Census, about 79% of Kennington's households owned their home, 14% rented privately and about 6% rented social housing. With fewer than one household in five renting, a To Let sign in Kennington gets the sort of attention another village might give to a new pub.
The median resident is 50, and people aged 25 to 44 make up about 22% of the population. The village's thirty-somethings are around, but they're outnumbered at every parents' evening by people whose own children have long since left.
Household income averages about £70,000 a year before tax. That is an Office for National Statistics model for the financial year to March 2023, spread across the two wider neighbourhood areas Kennington falls into. The number is gross, modelled and a few years old, so it is a long way from anyone's payslip while still giving a fair idea of a comfortable place.
Across the village's homes, the 2021 Census counted about 28% of households as one person living alone, and within that, about 16% of all households were a pensioner living alone. Couples with dependent children made up about 18% of households and lone parents about 7%. One home in six is a single pensioner, which goes some way to explaining all the bungalows.
About 42% of Kennington's adults hold a degree-level qualification, about 16% have no formal qualifications, and only about 1% are full-time students. The University of Oxford is a few miles up the road and its students live nearer to it, so the village has the graduates without the student houses.
The people of Kennington are among its real strengths. Most own their homes, the village is well qualified and comfortably off, and neighbours tend to stay long enough to get to know each other.