Redbridge is mostly homeowning families in early middle age, with good qualifications and good incomes. Two households in three own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Close to half hold a degree. This is a neighbourhood of mortgages and school runs, with house-shares the exception.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 census, which counted about 13,600 people in about 4,090 households. About 66% of households own their home, about 28% rent privately and about 6% rent from a council or housing association. Private renting is a real part of the mix, enough that one house in a few on most streets changes hands every couple of years without ever going on sale.
The median age is about 38, and about 29% of residents are between 25 and 44. That is the age band that buys the first proper house and then spends ten years arguing about the loft conversion.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income here at about £74,800 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area. After tax the same households had about £51,500. That is a comfortable income on paper, and it has to be, given what the houses cost.
About 23% of households are couples with children and about 10% are lone parents, so roughly a third of homes have children in them. About 21% of households are one person living alone, and within that, about 11% are pensioners on their own. The single pensioners are mostly the people who bought these houses first and stayed while the street changed around them.
About 44% of adults hold a degree or higher, and about 17% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 3% of residents, which is about what a neighbourhood with no university on its doorstep would expect. Both ends of the qualification scale are well represented, and the street is the same street for both of them.
At the census about 84% of residents described their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. At the level of the London Borough of Redbridge, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than the England average, and smoking, at about 9% of adults, is similar to it. Those borough figures cover far more than this corner and show the picture across the council, not on any one road.
Redbridge has an ordinary, middling mix of residents for this part of London: homeowning families on decent incomes, a sizeable renting minority and a generation of older owners still in the houses they bought first.