People who own their houses and stayed. Seven in ten are owner-occupiers. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. About one home in five is privately rented. This is a settled town rather than a staging post, and nobody is living here as a stepping stone to somewhere with a better postcode.
The tenure split is the clearest signal. Around 68% of households own their home and about 19% rent privately, with the remainder in social housing. That is an ownership-heavy town by any measure, and it shapes everything from how long people stay to how many front gardens have a project going on in them. Landlord-heavy places churn. This one does not.
Age follows tenure. The median resident is 46, and about 22% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 band. That is a place where the people buying are more often trading up or coming back than arriving for the first time, and where the school run and the retirement plan are both visibly present on the same street.
On money, the modelled figure for the area puts gross household income, before tax, at around £45,000 in the financial year to March 2023, with about £35,000 of that landing as net income after tax. That describes that year rather than today, and it is a modelled estimate for the wider area rather than a count of payslips. What it does tell you is that this is a town living on ordinary working money rather than on capital that arrived from somewhere else.
Household shapes, all from the 2021 census as with every population figure here, are mixed in a way that reads as normal rather than characterful. About 28% of households are one person living alone, and around 14% are pensioners living alone, which is a subset of that first figure and not an addition to it. Roughly 18% are couples with children and about 12% are lone parent households. That last number is a real feature of the town rather than a footnote, and it comes with practical consequences for school places and childcare that are worth knowing before you assume the local demand pattern matches wherever you are moving from.
Qualifications sit where a working town's qualifications usually sit. Around 23% hold degree-level qualifications, about 20% hold none, and about 2% are full-time students. Those three numbers describe a labour market built on trades, services and the sort of jobs that never asked for a certificate, alongside a professional layer that has grown quietly and works from home.
Health self-reports are reasonable. About 77% describe their health as good or very good and about 7% as bad or very bad. At the wider Cornwall level, smoking runs at around 12% of adults, which the national comparison marks as similar to England, and the preventable mortality rate is likewise marked similar to England. Those are council-area figures with an England benchmark attached, not St Blazey's own, and they describe a service picture rather than the people living in it.
For completeness, about 109 people here live in communal establishments rather than private households, which is small enough that it does not bend any of the shares above.
Who lives here is the least flattering thing on this page, and only if flattery is what you came for. It is a stable, ordinary, working town on ordinary money, with the strengths that come with people staying put and the limits that come with an area that has never had much spare.