Pagham is mostly past fifty and mostly at home. Roughly nine in ten households own their place. The typical resident is 57. About one in three households is single-person. A village of stayers, not starters.
On tenure, this is a strongly ownership-tilted village. About 87 in 100 households are owner-occupiers. Private rental sits at roughly 11 in 100, with social housing making up the small remainder. The rental share that does exist is small because most of the housing here was bought decades ago and is being lived in by the people who bought it, or by family members who inherited it. The buy-to-let investor market is thin, partly because the stock is the wrong shape for a typical investor portfolio, and partly because owner-occupiers are not selling.
The typical resident in Pagham is around 57 years old. Working-age people aged between 25 and 44 make up roughly one in five of the population, which on a national scale is a low share for that band. The age profile is a coastal-retirement curve, weighted heavily toward the over-fifties and the over-sixty-fives. Children exist in the village, but in noticeably smaller numbers than a market town or a commuter village of comparable size would carry. The school-run streets at 8:30am are quieter than the dog-walking streets at 7:45am, which is the demographic shape doing what demographic shapes do.
On income, median household income in the village runs at about £42,800. That sits modestly above the figure for households of this age profile nationally, and reflects a population whose income picture leans on pensions, savings drawdown and the occasional work-from-home arrangement rather than on rising salaries. Income inequality within the village is comparatively low. There are no visibly deprived pockets, and no visibly affluent enclaves of the kind that pull the average up artificially. The deprivation indices put Pagham in the upper-middle range nationally, with a trend that has been stable rather than rising or falling. A comfortable village, in the sober sense of the word.
On household make-up, about one in three households is single-person, and around one in four households is specifically a single pensioner living alone. Couples raising children account for roughly one in nine households. Lone-parent households account for about one in 16. The household stock and the housing stock are matched closely: a village dominated by single-storey bungalows ends up dominated by households that need or want single-storey living. That is not an accident of design. It is the housing market doing the obvious thing for the obvious demand.
For who lives here, Pagham scores above average. Not because the village is wealthy or fashionable, and not because it pulls in young professionals or new families at any noticeable rate, but because the residents are settled, the data is healthy across most measures the brief covers, and the village holds together as a community of stayers rather than as a layover between life stages. The challenge sitting under that score is replacement. When the current generation of residents moves on, the next generation may not want the same bungalow on the same street for the same reasons, and the village will have to decide what it becomes when the buyer profile and the housing profile stop fitting each other so neatly.