Muswell Hill is home mostly to graduates in early middle age who earn well. A little over half own their home. About three in ten rent privately. Six in ten adults have a degree. The typical resident is about forty, and the households here read the planning notices on the lamp posts with real interest.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 census unless it says otherwise. About 55% of Muswell Hill households own their home, about 30% rent privately and about 14% rent from the council or a housing association. One household in seven pays a social rent, so the hill is more mixed than its house prices would suggest.
The median resident is 40, and about 29% of residents are aged between 25 and 44. Muswell Hill attracts people who arrived at the start of their careers, stayed, and are now old enough to have firm views about the loft conversion next door.
The Office for National Statistics models the median household income in Muswell Hill at about £92,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That is a gross figure for a year now some way back, and it is the figure people quote at dinner, not the one left after tax and the mortgage on an Edwardian terrace.
Families with children are a substantial part of the hill without dominating it. About 24% of households are couples with dependent children and about 12% are lone parents.
About 29% of households are one person living alone, and within that group about 10% of all households are a pensioner living alone. Many of the flats are let or owned by single people, while couples and families take up the larger houses.
About 61% of adults in Muswell Hill hold a degree-level qualification, about 10% have no qualifications at all, and about 2% are full-time students. Most residents finished their studies some years ago, and the student share is small for an inner London district.
About 88% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Haringey as a whole, preventable deaths run at a rate similar to England's, and smoking, at about 19% of adults in the borough, is also similar to the England figure.
Muswell Hill is a settled, professional, well-qualified district. Most people here own their home, about one household in seven rents from a social landlord, and the typical resident is about forty and has been here a while.