Martock is owned, over fifty and staying put. Around three-quarters of homes belong to the people sleeping in them. One-person households outnumber couples with children. Renting exists, quietly, in two roughly equal halves. This is a village people retire into rather than one they pass through.
On tenure, 74% of households own their home, 13% rent privately and 13% rent from a social landlord. That is a small private rental market for a place of this size, and small rental markets are landlords' markets: the waiting is done by the tenant, and the choice is whatever came up that month.
The age profile is the defining fact. The median resident is 52, and 19% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 band, which is the age range most places rely on to fill the schools and the pubs. Every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 census.
Household income runs at about £52,800 gross before tax, or about £38,900 once tax is taken off, on modelling for the financial year to March 2023. That describes an earlier year rather than today, and it is a modelled average for the area rather than a survey of anyone's payslip.
Households here skew small. Single-person households account for 30%, and single pensioners make up 17% of all households, sitting inside that 30% rather than adding to it. Couples with children account for 15% and lone-parent households for 8%. A village where the largest single household type is one person is a village with a lot of spare bedrooms and a lot of gardens being maintained by people who no longer strictly need the space.
On qualifications, 31% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and 16% hold none. Full-time students make up 1%, which is what happens when the nearest thing to student accommodation is a spare room at home. It is a mixed picture rather than a uniform one, and none of it predicts anything about the person next door.
Health self-reports look solid: 81% describe their health as good or very good, and 5% as bad or very bad. On the wider council-area measures benchmarked against England, Somerset's preventable mortality rate comes out better than the England average, and adult smoking, at about 11%, comes out similar. Those are county figures with a national benchmark rather than anything measured in this village.
Only 39 residents live in communal establishments rather than private households, so the household shares above describe very nearly the whole population.
Who lives here is the least flattering line on this page, and only on paper: an older, settled, owner-occupying village that measures out as modest rather than prosperous, with plenty of people who chose exactly that and would not swap it for a better-looking statistic.