Settled owners in their late forties and older. More than eight in ten households own their home. The typical resident is nearer fifty than forty. Only about one in five is in the prime house-hunting years. The first-time buyer is the rarest species in the parish.
About 84% of households own their home. Private renters make up about 8%, and social renters another 8%. That's a village of owners with a small rented fringe. Most of the rented homes are social housing, not flats let to young professionals, because the flats aren't here to let.
The median age is 48. About 19% of residents are between 25 and 44, the age band that usually does most of the moving, the mortgages and the nursery runs. In Send they're outnumbered by people who've already done all three. The village isn't old, but it's well past the stage of arguing about which nursery.
Gross household income was modelled at about £72,000 for the financial year to March 2023, before tax. That's a comfortable figure, and it describes income three years ago, not today. It describes households that can pay a mortgage, not households still saving for the deposit.
The Census 2021 household mix is the source for every population figure on this page. About 23% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% are a pensioner living alone, a group that sits inside the one-person figure. Couples with dependent children make up about 23% of households, and lone parents about 6%. Families and people living alone are roughly equal in number, and neither dominates. The pensioner living alone in the bungalow and the family of four in the extended semi are both typical Send. Both tend to stay put.
About 43% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, about 12% have no qualifications, and about 2% are in full-time education. That's a mix, not a monoculture. The university-educated professionals and the people who left school and worked their way into a house share the same close. The low student share has an obvious reason: there's nothing here for students, and the rent would finish them off.
Nearly everyone in Send lives in a private household. Only two residents live in communal settings such as care homes, so the other shares describe the village as it is, without an institution skewing them.
Send's people are one of its strengths. It's a stable, comfortably off community of owners who stay, and in return it gives younger buyers little room to join it.