Pinner is mostly settled, well-off owner-occupiers in early middle age, who arrived for the schools and stayed long after. Seven in ten own their home. Half have a degree. The typical resident is in their forties, and most say they are in good health. Plenty of people move to Pinner, and not many move away again.
About 72% of Pinner's households own their home, against about 19% renting privately and about 8% in social housing. Pinner's 53,513 residents live in 19,949 households, and the owners far outnumber the renters. Landlords have a small share of the market here, and tenants are the minority on most streets.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 Census. The median resident was 43, and about 26% of people were between 25 and 44. That is a suburb of people who have already done their first-time buying elsewhere. Pinner is usually the second or third house, bought when the children needed a school.
The Office for National Statistics models household income in Pinner at about £87,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's neighbourhoods. That figure is three years old and before tax, so take-home pay is lower. It is a household figure, which in Pinner usually means two earners. A couple earning that much could still struggle to buy the house they already live in at today's prices.
The households are a mix of family homes and smaller ones. Couples with children make up about 25% of households and lone parents about 9%. One-person households make up about 24%, and pensioners living alone, who are counted within that group, make up about 14%. In plenty of these houses the children have left and the parents have stayed.
On qualifications, about 52% of residents hold a degree or higher, about 12% have no formal qualifications, and about 2% are full-time students. Students are scarce, because there is no university nearby and little cheap housing. Those who grew up here usually go elsewhere to study and only come back once they can afford to.
About 86% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 3% as bad or very bad. Across Harrow as a whole, deaths from preventable causes run better than the England average, and smoking is similar to the national rate. Between 2009 and 2013, Pinner South ward had the second-highest female life expectancy in London. A suburb where women live that long will always have plenty of widows in houses built for families.
Pinner's residents are well qualified, mostly healthy and mostly own their homes, which makes it one of the more comfortable communities in north-west London.