Roydon is mostly older homeowners who are comfortably off. About seven in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their late forties. Couples with children at home are only about one household in five. It is a village that buys houses and keeps them.
The 2021 census, the source for every population figure on this page, found about 73% of Roydon's households owning their home. About 15% rented privately and about 11% rented from a council or housing association. With so few private lets, a would-be tenant can wait a long time for one to come up.
The median resident is 47, and adults aged 25 to 44 make up about 23% of the population. The years when people start careers and families are under-represented here, and the village's age profile leans towards later life.
The Office for National Statistics modelled household income for the area at around £64,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, an average across the local statistical areas. That is a comfortable figure, and it was earned three years ago, before tax was taken off.
Families make up a smaller share of households than the house sizes might suggest. Couples with dependent children account for about 19% of households and lone parents about 8%.
About 27% of households are one person living alone. Those include the roughly 15% of households that are a single pensioner, which leaves a smaller share of people under pension age living alone. In a village where four bedrooms is the most common size of home, some of those single-person households will have rooms they rarely use.
On qualifications, about 33% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree or equivalent, and about 21% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 1% of the population. The village has a wide spread of qualifications, from graduates to people who left school without any.
Roydon's population is middling. It is mainly people who own their homes, are comfortably off and are getting older, with fewer young families than the size of the houses would suggest.