Owners, mostly, and mostly older than whoever is asking. Nearly three-quarters own their homes outright or on a mortgage. The typical resident is closer to fifty than forty. Around a third of households are one person living alone. Almost half the adult population holds a degree. This is not a retirement village, but retirement has a very strong showing at the meeting.
On tenure, about 73% of households own, roughly 15% rent privately and around 10% rent from a social landlord. In a place where sale prices sit where they do, that ownership figure is less a sign of prosperity than a sign of who got here first and stayed.
The age profile follows from that. The median age is 47, and only about 22% of residents fall into the 25 to 44 band, the stretch of life when people are usually buying a first house and having children in it. Those two numbers together describe the village more efficiently than any amount of prose about community spirit.
Income is comfortable without being remarkable. Modelled gross household income, before tax, came to roughly £51,000 for the financial year to March 2023, with net household income after tax at about £40,000. That is a figure describing that year rather than today, and it describes households rather than individuals, which matters in a place where a lot of households contain two earners and a lot more contain none because both members have stopped working.
Household shapes, all from the 2021 census along with every other population figure here, break down as about 30% one-person households, of which roughly 16% are a pensioner living alone, around 22% couples with children and about 7% lone-parent households. The single-pensioner share sits inside the single-person share rather than beside it. What the spread shows is a village where a good many front doors open onto one person, and the school-gate demographic, while real, is not the dominant one.
On qualifications, roughly 48% of adults hold a degree-level qualification and about 11% hold none, with around 2% in full-time study. A graduate share approaching half is not what the mining history would lead anyone to predict, and it is a straightforward consequence of who has been able to buy here over the last few decades.
Health reads well. About 85% of residents describe their own health as good or very good, with roughly 4% reporting bad or very bad health. At the wider Cornwall council level, which covers far more than this village, smoking prevalence of about 12% and the preventable mortality rate are both classed as similar to England overall. Those are council-area benchmarks, not a verdict on anyone living in this parish.
The population here is settled, comfortable and considerably further along than the average, which makes it a middling story rather than a striking one: no deprivation to speak of, no great churn, and not much of the 25-to-44 energy that changes a place. Buy in expecting a village of owner-occupiers with time on their hands and you will have read it correctly.