Owner-occupiers, mostly ones who arrived a while ago. Three-quarters own their homes. The typical resident is closer to fifty than forty. A quarter of households are one person living alone. This is not a village where careers begin, it is where they settle in and stop moving.
The tenure split is the clearest single fact about the place. Around 76% of households own their home, about 13% rent privately and roughly 11% rent from a social landlord. In a county where whole villages have been converted into other people's summers, a three-quarters owner-occupier village with a functioning social housing stock is a different proposition entirely.
The age profile follows from that. The median resident is 47, and only about 21% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 band. That is a village weighted toward people who have finished doing whatever it was they moved here to stop doing. It also means the school run and the pension conversation happen on the same street.
On income, the modelled figure for household income here was about £44,600 gross before tax in the financial year to March 2023, which works out at roughly £35,300 after tax. That describes 2022 and 2023 rather than today, and it is a modelled estimate for the area rather than a survey of anyone's payslip. It is a comfortable-enough number for a place where housing costs what it costs here, and nothing like a wealthy one.
Household shapes are ordinary in the way that tends to produce a quiet village. About 18% of households are couples with dependent children and around 10% are lone-parent households. All of the population figures on this page come from the 2021 census.
The solo-living picture is worth separating out. About 26% of households are one person on their own, and about 14% are pensioners living alone, that second group being part of the first rather than an addition to it. One in seven households being an older person by themselves is the fact that explains why the bus service and the walking distance to a shop matter more here than the price of a three-bedroom semi.
Qualifications land across a wide spread. About 30% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, about 17% hold none at all, and roughly 1% are full-time students. That is a village with graduates and without a graduate culture, which is a more interesting mix than either extreme and explains why the working-from-home share and the trades both show up in the same postcode.
On health, about 82% of residents report good or very good health and around 6% report bad or very bad health. Wider measures come at county level rather than village level: smoking prevalence across Cornwall is similar to the England average, and the county's preventable mortality rate is also similar to England. Those are Cornwall-wide figures with an England benchmark attached, and they describe the county's population rather than Lanner's.
Who lives here is the least remarkable thing about Lanner, and that is a fair description rather than an insult: an ageing, settled, middling-income village of homeowners, with the spread of qualifications and household types you would expect from somewhere that never had a boom to attract anyone in particular.