Pitstone is a village of homeowners in middle age, well qualified and comfortably off. Three in four own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. About four in ten hold a degree. Most people say their health is good.
At the 2021 Census, the source for every population figure here, about 75% of Pitstone's households owned their home. About 9% rented privately and 16% rented from a council or housing association, so social renting outnumbers private renting here. Landlords looking for a buy-to-let will find the village has mostly been bought to live in.
The median resident is 43, and people aged 25 to 44 make up about 23% of the population. That's a village past its first-home stage and well into the years of school runs and loft conversions.
The Office for National Statistics models household income at about £72,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across a wider area that includes the village. That figure is before tax and national insurance, so the money a household actually has to spend each month is smaller.
The Census counted 4,319 people in 1,689 households, with all of them living in ordinary homes and nobody in care homes or halls. Lone-parent households make up about 9% of the total.
Couples with children make up about 30% of households, and about 21% are people living alone. About 11% are pensioners living alone, and they are counted within that 21%. The village holds both ends of family life, the parents still on the school run and the older residents whose children left years ago.
About 41% of residents hold a degree, about 12% have no formal qualifications and about 2% are full-time students. Those students don't add up to a student population. Young people here leave for university and, on the age figures, some come back once they have children of their own.
About 88% of residents described their health as good or very good at the Census. Buckinghamshire as a whole does better than England on preventable deaths and on smoking, with about 8% of adults in the county smoking.
The people of Pitstone are one of its strengths: settled owners, well qualified and comfortably off, with families making up a large share of the households and older residents a sizeable part of the rest.