Silver End is a village of homeowners in the middle of their working lives, with more social housing than its rows of semis suggest. Seven in ten own their home. One household in five rents from a social landlord. The typical resident is about forty. Private landlords barely register.
The 2021 census, the source for every population figure in this answer, found 69% of households in the Silver End area owning their home outright or with a mortgage. About 21% rent from a council or housing association and only 8% rent privately. Crittall built the village to house his factory workforce, and a century later social landlords still house far more people here than private ones.
The median age is 40, and 28% of residents are between 25 and 44. That puts most people at the stage of mortgages, school runs and a car for every working adult.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income at about £59,600 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the Silver End area and the villages around it. That is a gross figure, so tax and national insurance still come off it before any mortgage gets paid.
Couples with dependent children make up about 23% of households, and lone parents about 11%. Together they account for roughly a third of the village's households.
People living alone make up 24% of households, and pensioners living alone, who are counted within that 24%, make up 12%. The bungalows and smaller homes are mostly theirs. Many of those pensioners will have bought when the village still had its factory.
About 23% of adults hold a degree, 18% have no formal qualifications, and full-time students are 1% of residents. That is a working village with a mix of trades and office jobs, and very few people in their late teens or twenties renting while they study.
Silver End is an ordinary place to live: settled families, a large group of older residents living alone, and a social-housing tradition left over from its factory days.