Settled homeowners in the second half of their careers, mostly. More than eight in ten own their home. The typical resident is closer to fifty than forty. More than half have a degree. This is a village of people who've already settled the argument about where to live, and won it.
About 84% of households own their home. Private renting covers about 13%, and social renting under 3%. It's a village where the landlord is the person who lives there. Renters are few enough that neighbours may spot a new one before the letting agent does.
The median age is 49, and only about 18% of residents are aged 25 to 44. The people who'd normally be buying a first home, starting a family and moving for work are thin on the ground. Most of them are living somewhere cheaper, and some will arrive here later with the equity.
Modelled household income averaged about £84,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That's a gross figure for the area, modelled by the Office for National Statistics, not a payslip, and it describes 2022 to 2023, not today. It's a comfortable figure, and it still wouldn't come close to buying a typical house here from scratch, so most buyers arrive with equity from an earlier home.
Lone-parent households are about 5% of the total, the smallest group among the household types the census counts here.
The census is the source for every population figure on this page, and in 2021 it counted 2,521 residents in 1,016 households. Single-person households made up about 22%, and within those, people aged 66 or over living alone accounted for about 13% of all households. Couples with dependent children made up about 24%. A household of schoolchildren is outnumbered by the houses where they've already left home and the spare rooms are now a study, a gym and a room waiting for grandchildren.
About 55% of residents aged 16 and over have a degree-level qualification, about 7% have none, and about 1% are full-time students. It's a well-educated village, and one where a lot of people probably have an opinion on the new sign at the village hall.
Limpsfield's community is one of its real strengths: settled, comfortable and well qualified. What it lacks is people in their twenties and thirties, and the house prices go a long way towards explaining why.