Families who bought here and then stayed. Roughly seven and a half thousand people across about three thousand households. Most of them own the roof over their heads, and only a quarter rent. The typical resident is in their forties, with children in a good share of the houses and grandparents in others. Nobody moves to Peasedown St John for the scene, and nobody seems to leave in much of a hurry either.
Tenure sets the tone for everything else. About 75% of households own their home, roughly 14% rent privately and about 11% rent from a social landlord. That makes the rental market here small enough that people wait for something to come up rather than browse, and it makes the village a place where the neighbours have usually been the neighbours for a while.
The age profile is settled rather than young. The median age is 44, and about 23% of residents are aged between 25 and 44. This is not a village of first jobs and shared houses. It is a village of second cars and school runs, with a solid layer of people who arrived for the family stage and never found a reason to move on.
On money, household income was modelled at about £65,600 gross for the financial year to March 2023, which comes to roughly £46,500 after tax. That figure describes a period now a couple of years behind, and gross is the number people quote while net is the number that pays the mortgage. It is comfortable without being lavish, which matches almost everything else about the place.
The household make-up, along with every other population figure here, comes from the 2021 census. About 27% of households are one person living alone, and pensioners living alone account for about 13% of all households, sitting inside that first figure rather than alongside it. Couples with children make up about 21%, and lone parents about 10%. What that adds up to is a village doing all the life stages at once on the same streets, which is more than can be said for the newer estates people usually compare it to.
Qualifications spread widely. About 32% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, about 16% have no formal qualifications, and roughly 2% are full-time students. That is a genuinely mixed picture, and it is the shape you would expect somewhere that was a working coalfield village within living memory and is now largely a commuter one.
Health reads well. About 84% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Across Bath and North East Somerset as a whole, smoking runs at about 7% of adults, rated better than England, and the preventable mortality rate sits at about 107, also rated better than England. Those two are council-area measures with an England benchmark rather than anything measured on these streets, and they say something about the district the village sits in, not about the people in it.
The population here is one of the village's quieter strengths: settled, mixed across ages and stages, comfortable enough, and made up overwhelmingly of people who chose to buy in and stay put.