Owners, mostly, and mostly in their late forties. Around three in four households own the roof over their heads. Only a quarter rent, and barely anyone is a student. Nearly three in ten adults hold a degree, and almost one in five holds no qualification at all. This is not a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else, which is both its appeal and the reason nothing much changes.
Every population figure here comes from Census 2021. On tenure, about 73% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage, about 18% rent privately and about 7% rent from a social landlord. A rental market that thin means the people who live here are the people who bought here, and the turnover is whatever the local estate agents can find rather than what anyone is choosing to list.
The age profile runs older than the county cliche suggests without tipping into retirement colony. The median age is 47, and the core working-age band of 25 to 44 makes up about 23% of residents. That is enough younger adults to keep the primary schools going and not enough to change the character of a Tuesday evening.
On income, modelled household income runs at roughly £49,000 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, with net household income around £37,100 once tax comes off. Those are modelled averages describing a year that is now some way behind us, not a current payslip, and they describe the household rather than the earner.
Household make-up is where the place gets more interesting than the ownership figure implies. About 28% of households are a single person living alone, and within that, about 15% of all households are a pensioner living alone. Couples with dependent children make up about 19%, and lone-parent households about 8%. Those two numbers together are the school-run population, and they sit alongside a substantial count of people living on their own in houses that were built for more.
Education splits rather than clusters. About 30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, about 17% hold none at all, and full-time students account for around 2% of residents. Qualification levels here are genuinely varied rather than uniform, and the small student share reflects the absence of anywhere within walking distance to study.
Health self-reports are decent. About 79% of residents describe their health as good or very good, with about 6% reporting bad or very bad health. At the wider Cornwall level, smoking prevalence sits at about 12% and is classed as similar to England, and the preventable mortality rate is also classed as similar to England. Those are council-area measures with a national benchmark attached, not a reading taken from these villages, and they describe a system rather than the people in it.
Almost everyone here lives in a private household. Of roughly 3,210 residents, 37 live in communal establishments, which is small enough that it changes none of the shares above.
The population profile is the softer side of average: an ageing, settled, largely owner-occupying group on ordinary incomes, with a sizeable share living alone and not much inward movement to shift any of it. That stability is comfortable to live in and slow to change, which is the trade you make when you buy into a place where nobody leaves.