Sandhurst is lived in by settled homeowners in the middle of life, and most of them haven't moved in years. About eight in ten own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. A third have a degree. It's not a town people pass through. The only real turnover is at the military academy.
About 79% of households own their home. Private renting accounts for about 13% and social renting about 8%. In a town like this, renting is what you do for a year while you save to buy here, and the numbers suggest most people get there.
The median age is 42, and about 26% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That's a settled middle age, with little in the way of a young crowd. Anyone looking for a scene will find it in the queue at the school gate.
Household income averaged about £74,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. It's a modelled figure for the area, and it's three years old. It describes comfortable, two-income households, where arguments about money are about the extension, not the electricity bill.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 Census. Couples with dependent children make up about 24% of households, and about 8% are lone parents. About 24% of households are one person living alone, and within that, about 11% of all households are a pensioner living alone. The pensioner share is part of the single-person figure, not extra to it. Couples with children and people living alone make up about the same share of households, which says Sandhurst has two groups side by side: the families who moved in for the schools, and the people who stayed on after the children left.
About 34% of residents hold a degree, about 13% have no formal qualifications and about 2% are full-time students. It's a broad mix, and the low student figure makes sense: there's no university here, and teenagers who leave for one tend not to come back until they can afford a house here.
About 88% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Bracknell Forest as a whole, preventable deaths run better than the England average, and smoking is similar to England. Those are figures for the whole borough, not for Sandhurst. They describe the area around the town, not the people on any particular street.
Of the 20,381 residents, 756 live in communal accommodation, not private households. That's not enough to distort the figures above, which mostly describe ordinary family homes.
The people here are one of Sandhurst's real strengths: settled, comfortably off and in good health.