Marylebone is mostly well-educated, well-paid renters in their thirties, and many of them live alone. Most residents rent. Nearly half of households are one person. Children are scarce. Marylebone is full of professionals whose names are on a tenancy agreement, not a deed.
At the 2021 census, which is the source for the population figures here, about 29% of Marylebone's households owned their home. About 58% rented privately and about 12% rented from a council or housing association. Owner-occupiers are the minority, and the renters set the tone.
The median age is 36, and about 41% of residents are between 25 and 44. That is the age of the first serious job, a career in full swing, and a lease signed for the location.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income here at £83,767 before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. It is a modelled average for the area, so any one household could sit well above or below it. Before tax it looks like plenty, and after tax and the rent it is spent on living in Marylebone.
About 47% of households are one person living alone, and about 9% are pensioners living alone, who are part of that 47%. Couples with children make up about 10% of households and lone parents about 5%. Most of the neighbours you pass in the stairwell will have nobody waiting for them at home.
About 69% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, about 8% have no qualifications and about 3% are full-time students. The mix leans heavily towards graduates. Lord Byron was born here, and he would find plenty of company at a Marylebone dinner party who had read him.
About 90% of residents described their health as good or very good at the census. Westminster's rate of preventable deaths is better than England's, and its smoking rate is similar to England's. Both are borough-wide measures, set against the England benchmark.
The people of Marylebone are educated, healthy and comfortably off, and most of them rent where they live. As a neighbourhood to join, it scores above average, and for many residents it is somewhere to spend a few good years before settling elsewhere.