Lower Edmonton is mostly young renters and the families raising children in its terraces. Six in ten households rent. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. Nearly one household in four is a single parent with children. Owning a home is the minority position here, and for many people it was never on offer.
About 41% of households own their home, about 34% rent privately and about 25% rent from a social landlord. With six in ten renting, the neighbour with the strongest opinion about your guttering may well be a landlord who has never seen it.
The median resident is 35, and about 28% of people are aged between 25 and 44. Thirty-five is about the age when people start looking at three-bedroom terraces, and Lower Edmonton has plenty of them.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income here at about £62,400 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's neighbourhoods. That figure is from before income tax, rent and a mortgage are paid, and it is several years old.
Single parents with children make up about 23% of households, more than the 18% who are couples with children. That makes a lot of households where one adult handles the earning, the school run and everything in between.
All figures on this page come from the 2021 census. About 26% of households are one person living alone, and about 10% are a pensioner living alone, a group counted within that 26%. Add the couples with children and the single parents, and family homes make up a large share of the streets.
About 28% of residents hold a degree, about 29% have no formal qualifications and about 3% are full-time students. The graduates and those without qualifications come out almost level, so most streets have plenty of both.
About 82% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Enfield as a borough does better than England on deaths from preventable causes, and its smoking rate, about 14%, is similar to the national figure.
On paper, this is Lower Edmonton's weakest area. It is a young community, mostly renting and raising families on gross incomes that have to stretch, and the area's own statistics are hard on it even where the people living there are getting on with it.