Lechlade-on-Thames is mostly home to comfortable owner-occupiers in their fifties, many of them graduates and most of them staying put. About 3,600 people live here. Seven in ten own their home. The typical resident is past fifty. Young families are here too, but people whose children have already grown up outnumber them.
All the population figures on this page come from the 2021 census, which counted 3,577 residents in 1,605 households. About 71% of households own their home, 14% rent privately and another 14% rent from a social landlord. Lechlade's private landlords and its social landlords house almost exactly the same number of households.
The median age is 51, and people aged 25 to 44 make up only about 19% of residents. That's the age group that usually brings the pushchairs and the school runs, and in Lechlade it's under a fifth of the town. Most residents have done their moving, and the ones who arrive now tend to be at the same stage of life.
Modelled household income for the area covering the town was about £58,700 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That's a comfortable figure, and it's gross, so the amount that reaches the bank account is lower.
About 27% of households are one person living alone, and 15% of all households are a pensioner living alone, part of that same 27%. Couples with children make up about 19% of households and lone parents about 7%. Couples with children only just outnumber pensioners living alone, and in a lot of the town's four-bedroom houses, those bedrooms are where the children used to sleep.
About 43% of residents have a degree, about 12% have no formal qualifications, and full-time students make up about 2%. With students that few and graduates that many, Lechlade's residents mostly finished their education a while ago and then moved somewhere with a river.
Lechlade-on-Thames is a prosperous, well-educated and mostly older town, home to owners who have put down roots by the water. Very little about who lives here should worry a buyer, as long as the buyer is happy with neighbours who've been here a while.