People who own, work and stay put. Two thirds of homes are owner-occupied. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. Students barely register. This is a village of households rather than a village of arrivals, and every figure underneath points the same way.
About 65% of households own their home. Around 17% rent privately and about 15% rent socially, which puts a real rental market here without anything close to overturning the ownership. Landlords exist. They are not what the village is made of.
The median age is 45, and about 25% of residents fall in the 25 to 44 band. That combination describes a working core with a settled older half sitting alongside it, rather than a retirement destination or a starter-home estate. Nobody is passing through on a two-year plan.
Household income is modelled at about £41,500 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is what the number covers, a particular year already behind us, and not what anyone is taking home this month.
About 10% of households are lone-parent households. In a village where the primary is walkable and the secondary needs a car, that share is a scheduling reality for the people in it rather than an item on a chart.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 census, including the rest of the household make-up. About 29% of households are one person living alone, and about 13% are a pensioner living alone, which sits inside that first share rather than being added to it. About 17% are couples with dependent children. The single household, not the family of four, is the most common arrangement in the village, which is the sort of thing estate agents never mention while describing a place as family friendly.
On qualifications, about 20% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 21% hold none at all. Full-time students account for about 1%, so term dates do not move anything here. The two ends of the qualification range sit almost level with each other, which is a fairly unusual balance and a fairly honest one.
Health-wise, about 76% of residents describe themselves as in good or very good health, and about 8% as in bad or very bad health. Widening out to the Cornwall council area rather than the village, adult smoking is recorded at about 12% and rated similar to England, and preventable mortality is also rated similar to England. Those two are authority-level measures with a national benchmark attached, not Roche's own, and they describe a system's outcomes rather than the people living inside it.
Of everything this page weighs up, the community profile is where Roche comes out weakest, and it comes out weakest on incomes and qualifications rather than on anything you would sense walking down the road. The village is settled, owned and entirely uninterested in impressing anyone. The paperwork is simply less flattering than the place.