People who bought a house here and then stopped moving. Eight in ten own the place they live in. The typical resident is well into their fifties. A third of households are one person on their own. Fewer than one in seven residents falls in the prime career-building age bracket. This is a village that fills up slowly and empties even more slowly.
Tenure is the foundation of everything else. The Census in 2021, which is the source for every population figure on this page, found 82% of households owning their home, with 14% renting privately and 5% in social housing. In a place with barely a handful of sales a year, that ownership share is less a market preference than a description of how rarely anything changes hands.
The age profile follows. The median age is 57, and only 13% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That is a village weighted heavily toward people in the second half of their working life and beyond, with the early-career bracket largely absent. It also explains the quiet, which residents here would describe as the main amenity.
On money, modelled gross household income before tax for the area came to about £46,200 in the financial year to March 2023. That is a modelled figure describing that year rather than a current one, and it is income before any tax comes off. Take it as an indication of the local range, not as what any particular household banks.
Household make-up is where the village's character is clearest. 32% of households are a single person living alone, and 20% are a single pensioner, which is a subset of that first figure rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children make up 15%, and lone-parent households 7%. Put plainly, solo living is the most common arrangement here and family households are the minority, which is not what most people picture when they hear "Cornish village with good schools nearby".
On qualifications, 27% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and 19% hold none at all, with full-time students at 1%. That is a mixed picture rather than a uniform one, and in a village of this size it reflects a population assembled over decades from very different working lives rather than any single type.
Health self-reporting is reasonable: 76% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and 6% as bad or very bad. For the wider Cornwall council area, preventable mortality is rated similar to England, and smoking prevalence at 12% is also rated similar to England. Those are local-authority measures covering the whole county rather than readings from this village, and they describe the area's health system and profile rather than any judgement about the people in it.
One footnote changes how to read the rest. Of the 1,403 residents, 24 live in communal establishments rather than private households, and the village carries a care home among its rateable premises. On a population this size that is small but not nothing, and it nudges the age profile upward.
Who lives here is unremarkable in the most literal sense: a settled, older, owner-occupied village with a middling economic profile and no particular extremes in either direction. If you want neighbours who have been in the same house for twenty years and intend to make it forty, this is exactly the right place, and if you want a village with young families spilling out of every door, the numbers are telling you something else.