Poyle is home to people at the busy end of their working lives, and about half of them rent. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Nearly half rent from a private landlord. Few pensioners live alone here. Poyle is a village for working, and very little retiring goes on.
About 52% of households own their home, and about 44% rent privately, with only about 4% in social housing. The split is close to even, which is unusual for a place still called a village. Private landlords house almost as many people here as mortgages do.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 Census. Poyle had 1,991 residents in 784 households, and the median age was about 37. About 37% of residents were aged 25 to 44, the years of commuting, nursery fees and first mortgages. Poyle's profile matches the jobs on its doorstep more than the pensioners' coastline.
The Office for National Statistics modelled average household income before tax at about £61,000 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across an area a little larger than the village. After tax and other deductions, the same households come out at about £43,000. That smaller figure is the one the rent or the mortgage gets paid from.
About 29% of households are one person living alone, and about 8% are a pensioner living alone, a group already counted within that 29%. About 23% are couples with children, and about 11% are lone parents. Families and single people make up most of the village, with the young professionals in the flats and the families in the semis.
About 32% of adults have a degree, about 17% have no formal qualifications, and only about 2% of residents are full-time students. That mix fits a place whose rating list runs from offices to warehouses, where the jobs range from desks to forklifts.
About 87% of residents described their health as good or very good, and about 3% as bad or very bad. Across Slough as a whole, the council-area figures put deaths from preventable causes at about the England average and smoking below it, with about 7% of adults smoking. That might surprise anyone whose picture of Slough comes from the television.
Poyle's population is pretty average for the region, made up of working-age renters and owners in roughly equal numbers. They are mostly here for the jobs, and most of them leave each day to go and do them.