St Luke's is young, mostly renting and mostly living alone or in pairs. Around four in five households rent, and more of them rent from a council or housing association than from a private landlord. The typical resident is in their early thirties. More than half hold a degree. Families with children are a small minority on most staircases.
Every population figure on this page is from the 2021 census, which counted 25,691 residents in St Luke's. About 21% of households own their home. Social renting is the largest tenure at about 43%, and private renting accounts for about 34%. The two groups of renters often live in the same post-war blocks, a tenancy agreement apart and with the same lift between them.
The typical resident is 32, and about 41% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That leaves relatively few teenagers and relatively few pensioners, and plenty of people at the age where a flat near work matters more than a garden.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income here at about £76,700 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That figure averages very different households across the area and describes nobody's payslip in particular. For a typical St Luke's household it is good money, and the first year's rent or mortgage in Zone 1 still takes a large share of it.
About 42% of households are one person living alone, and about 8% are a single pensioner, who are counted inside that 42%. Couples with dependent children make up about 9% of households and lone parents about 13%. A family of four is the unusual household on most landings, and the most common one is a single name on the door.
About 57% of adults hold a degree, about 13% have no qualifications and about 4% are full-time students. The degree share reflects how many people move here to be near work in the City. The other two show how many residents were living here long before the City started looking north for somewhere to live.
About 85% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Islington as a whole, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is worse than the England average, while smoking, at about 9% of adults, is similar to England. Those borough-level comparisons say nothing about the health of any particular household in St Luke's.
About 1,500 residents live in communal settings rather than private households, such as halls of residence, hostels, care homes and similar. That is a real share of the population for a district this small. It means some residents are here for a term or a placement rather than a mortgage term, and it pulls a little at every household share above.
St Luke's is a middling, mixed neighbourhood: young professionals, long-standing social tenants and a transient fringe living side by side. It has the age profile of a place where people start out, and only a small share of people stay long enough to own.