Seven Kings is mostly young working households, split roughly evenly between owners and renters. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. About a quarter of households are couples with children. Hardly any residents are students. People come here for the line into London and stay to raise families.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 Census. About 53% of Seven Kings households own their home, about 38% rent privately and about 8% rent from a social landlord. The terrace next door is as likely to be someone's pension as someone's home.
The median resident of Seven Kings is 34, and people aged 25 to 44 make up about 32% of the population. That is the age when people buy a buggy and start reading Ofsted reports.
Household income in Seven Kings, modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023, comes out around £69,000 before tax, averaged across the area. Before tax it sounds comfortable. After a mortgage on an Edwardian terrace and a season ticket into London, it sounds more like a household budget.
About 26% of households are couples with children and about 12% are lone parents. About 20% are one person living alone, and that 20% includes the roughly 7% who are pensioners on their own. The terraces were built for families, and families are still the ones filling them.
About 38% of residents hold a degree, about 20% have no formal qualifications, and full-time students make up about 3%. No university sets the age profile here. The commute does that.
About 85% of Seven Kings residents described their health as good or very good. Across Redbridge as a whole, preventable deaths run better than the England average, and smoking, at about 9% of adults, is similar to England.
By the measures this page uses, Seven Kings scores below par on who lives here. It is young and hard-working, with less money and fewer advantages to fall back on than the commute might suggest.