Olympic Park is lived in mostly by young graduates who rent. Most residents have a degree. Very few are retired. Most households have a landlord, and about one in six owns its home. The athletes moved out after the Games, and the people who replaced them are about the same age.
At the 2021 census, the source of every population figure here, about 17% of households owned their home. About 52% rented from a private landlord and about 25% from a social landlord. A buyer here is moving into a neighbourhood of tenants. Ask the managing agent how many flats in a block are let, because it decides who will turn up to the residents' meeting.
The typical resident is 29, and about 55% of people are aged 25 to 44. A fortieth birthday here makes someone one of the older people in the lift.
Household income averaged about £64,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, on the Office for National Statistics' modelled figures for the area. That is a good income that still does not go very far at London prices.
About 22% of households are one person living alone, and about 1% are a pensioner living alone, which is a subset of that 22%. Couples with children make up about 14% of households and lone parents about 9%. Most of the rest are couples without children and people sharing flats, which fits an area full of two-bedroom homes.
About 69% of adults hold a degree-level qualification and about 6% have no qualifications. Full-time students make up about 5% of residents. For an area this close to so much university housing on the map that is a small share, so most of the graduates here have already finished their degrees and gone to work.
About 92% of residents describe their health as good or very good, which is what an area with a typical age of 29 would lead anyone to expect. Across Newham as a whole, the preventable death rate is similar to England's, and about 11% of adults smoke, which is also similar to the England figure. Those borough figures cover a much older and wider population than the one living around the park.
At the census, 772 people lived in communal establishments such as halls, hostels and care homes, outside private households altogether. That is a real share of the area's population, and every household figure above leaves them out. The neighbourhood is bigger and younger than its household statistics alone would suggest.
Olympic Park's population is young, well qualified and mostly renting, so the area is busy and works well for people in their twenties and thirties. That turnover makes it a middling choice for a buyer hoping to know the neighbours in five years' time.