Working-age households with mortgages, which is not the village stereotype anybody arrives with. Roughly seven in ten own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. About a quarter of households are one person living alone. This is not a retirement village doing an impression of a commuter village, and nobody here is pretending otherwise.
On tenure, about 68% of households own their home, about 16% rent privately and about 14% rent from a social landlord. That last figure is the one that separates this place from the picture-postcard version of a Somerset village. There is genuine social housing here, sitting in the same streets as the owner-occupied stock, and the village is more mixed for it.
The age profile is young by rural standards. The median resident is 37, and about 32% of people are aged between 25 and 44. That is the demographic that has small children, two jobs and a school run, rather than the demographic that has a boat and opinions about the parish council.
On money, modelled household income before tax came to about £51,750 for the financial year to March 2023, produced by the Office for National Statistics at neighbourhood level. It is a modelled figure for that year rather than a reading of anybody's current pay, and it describes gross income, so the amount actually landing in local bank accounts is smaller than the number suggests.
Household make-up, from the 2021 census that underpins every population figure here, splits about as you would expect for a place built for families. Around 23% of households are couples with children and about 9% are lone parents. About 28% are one person living alone, and roughly 10% are pensioners living alone, that second figure being a slice of the first rather than an addition to it.
Qualifications land in the middle without much drama. About 33% hold a degree-level qualification, about 13% hold none, and about 2% are full-time students. That mix describes a working village rather than a university town or a commuter dormitory for a professional class, and it is precisely the sort of spread that estate agent copy manages to avoid mentioning in either direction.
Health reads well. About 86% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Across Somerset as a whole, preventable mortality is better than the England average, and smoking prevalence at about 11% sits similar to England. Those two are county-level measures rather than the village's own, so they describe the health system and habits of a wide rural area, not the street.
One technical note worth holding when reading any of the above: of a population of 4,274, some 196 people are counted in communal establishments rather than private households. It is a small enough share not to reshape the picture, and large enough to explain why household counts and population counts never quite line up.
The people here are a settled, working, mixed-tenure population with good self-reported health and a young median age, which is a stronger social base than most villages this size can claim. Nobody is going to write a colour supplement piece about it, and that is broadly the point.