Owners, mostly, and not many of them young. About three thousand people in total. Two in three own their homes. Nearly a third of households are a single person. The middle of the age range sits comfortably past fifty. This is a village people move to and then stop moving.
Tenure sets the tone. The 2021 census, which is the source for the population figures throughout this answer, puts owner-occupation at 67%, with 14% renting privately and 18% in social housing. That social housing share is larger than the version of a Somerset village most buyers carry in their heads, and it is the main reason the place has a broader mix behind the stone frontages than the frontages advertise.
The age profile is the other defining fact. The median resident is 54, and 18% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 band, which is the group most places depend on to staff their evenings and fill their rental stock. This is not a village that runs on that group. It runs on people who arrived with the moving-in phase behind them.
On money, median household income across the area was about £54,300 gross before tax, or about £40,800 after tax, modelled for the financial year to March 2023. That describes that year rather than today, and it is a household figure rather than a salary, which is a distinction property listings tend to blur when they describe an area as affluent.
Household make-up follows the age profile precisely. Thirty-one percent of households are one person living alone, and 20% are a pensioner living alone, the second group sitting inside the first rather than alongside it. Couples with dependent children account for 15% of households and lone parents for 10%. That leaves a village where the school run is a real thing on a minority of streets and a total non-event on the rest.
Qualifications split in a way worth noticing. Thirty-three percent of adults hold a degree-level qualification, 16% hold none at all, and full-time students make up 1% of residents. A place with that many graduates and almost no students is a place where the education happened elsewhere and arrived later by removal van.
Health reads well. Seventy-eight percent of residents describe their health as good or very good, and 6% describe it as bad or very bad. Across Somerset as a whole, which is the wider local authority rather than this village, the preventable mortality rate is better than the England figure, and adult smoking sits at about 11%, similar to England. Those are county-level benchmarks and should be read as the general backdrop rather than as anything specific to this postcode.
The overall picture is unremarkable in the way that suits some buyers perfectly: comfortable rather than wealthy, older than most places, weighted toward people living alone or living settled, and short on the churn that makes a place feel like it is being rearranged around you.