Newington is lived in by people who bought a house and then stopped looking. Nearly eight in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. Students barely register. This is where the house hunt ends, not where it starts.
All the figures on this page come from Census 2021 unless stated otherwise, and they cover the wider Newington area, including the surrounding villages, not only the village itself. About 78% of households own their home. Private renters make up about 10%, and social renters about the same. Landlords haven't got much of a foothold here, because most of the houses were bought by the people now living in them.
The median age is 44. Only about 24% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years when people usually buy their first home and have children. The area isn't old, but it has settled down. Most people here moved in during those years and stayed on.
Gross household income, before tax, averaged about £62,000 in the financial year to March 2023. That's a modelled figure for the area and describes that year, not this one. It fits a place of mortgages, second cars and extensions over the garage more than one of spare cash and nights out.
On household make-up, about 23% of households are one person living alone, and about 13% are a pensioner living alone, a group that is part of the first figure rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children make up about 21% of households and lone parents about 8%. That means one household in five is a family on the school run, sitting alongside a similar number where one person, often retired, has the whole house to themselves.
On qualifications, about 28% of residents hold a degree and about 20% have no formal qualifications, with full-time students at about 1%. The mix is broad, which is typical of a village where the people who've lived here for generations share a road with commuters who arrived with an office job. Nobody is here for the student nightlife, because there isn't any.
About 69 people live in communal settings such as care homes rather than private households. That's too few to change how any of the other figures read.
The people in Newington are a middle-of-the-road mix: comfortable, owner-occupied and settled, neither well-off nor struggling. It suits buyers who want neighbours who'll still be there in ten years, and it's the wrong place for anyone looking to move somewhere with a lot of turnover.