Mostly people who own their homes and have owned them for a long time. About two in three households are owner-occupiers. A third of all households are one person living on their own. The typical resident is in their early forties, so this is neither a retirement town nor a student one. What lives here is a settled working population rather than anyone passing through.
On tenure, the 2021 Census puts owner-occupation at about 64% of households, with roughly 22% renting privately and about 13% in social housing. That ownership level does most of the explaining for how the place behaves: people stay, streets turn over slowly, and the rental market is a genuine minority rather than the engine of the town.
The age profile sits squarely in the middle. The median resident is 43, and about 26% of the population are aged 25 to 44. Nobody is going to mistake this for a commuter suburb full of young families or for a coastal town that quietly became a care home with a sea view.
Income is the number that frames everything else. Median gross household income before tax was modelled at about £44,000 for the financial year to March 2023, so it describes that year rather than this one. Gross means before anything is deducted, which is worth saying because the figure reads better on a page than it does in a bank account.
Households skew small. Around 34% are a single person living alone, of whom about 15% of all households are a pensioner on their own, a subset of that first figure rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children make up about 18% of households, and lone-parent households about 10%.
On qualifications, about 28% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 18% hold none at all, with full-time students accounting for roughly 2% of the population. That is a working town's profile, shaped by an economy that for two centuries paid people to go underground rather than to sit examinations, and it says nothing whatever about what any individual household is capable of.
Health reports reasonably well. About 79% of residents describe their health as good or very good, with about 7% reporting it as bad or very bad. Widening out to the Cornwall council area, which is a much larger geography than this town, smoking prevalence is rated similar to England and the preventable mortality rate is also rated similar to England. Those are council-level benchmarks rather than a verdict on this postcode.
Almost everyone here lives in an ordinary household: of about 18,075 residents, roughly 17,930 are in private households and around 145 in communal establishments, which is small enough that it moves none of the shares above.
Of everything this page measures, the community profile is where Redruth comes off weakest, and it reflects a century of industrial decline rather than anything about the people currently living in it. The town has a settled, largely owner-occupying population on modest incomes, and it has been quietly getting on with itself since the copper money left for other continents.