Mostly working households, and a lot of them rent. Just under half own their home. About three in ten rent from a social landlord. The typical resident is in their late thirties. Stanwell is the working end of Surrey, home to people with jobs to get to.
At the 2021 census, about 49% of Stanwell's households owned their home, so owners are only just short of half. About 29% rented from a social landlord and 19% from a private one. Social housing here is bigger than the private rented market by some distance.
The median resident is 37, and about 32% of people are aged 25 to 44, the years of mortgages, nurseries and moving house. Stanwell has more prams than retirement flats.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income in Stanwell, before tax, at about £58,900 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the two statistical areas the village falls in. The same model puts household income after tax at about £43,600. The mortgage gets paid from the second figure.
Families make up a big share of the households. About 21% are couples with dependent children and 15% are lone parents.
The census, the source of every population figure here, counts about 28% of households as one person living alone. About 9% are pensioners living alone, and they are part of that 28%, not on top of it. Around one home in eleven is an older person on their own, which matters to anyone weighing up a quiet road against a lively one. Each type of household tends to have its own street: pensioners in bungalows, families in semis, single people in flats.
About 28% of adults here hold a degree and 23% have no formal qualifications. Only about 2% of residents are full-time students. There is no university nearby and no student lets, so the street next door is not likely to fill with student parties in term time.
Only 61 people live in communal settings such as care homes, out of about 11,700 residents. That is too few to change any of the shares above.
On the national measures of income, qualifications and deprivation, the community is the part of Stanwell that scores weakest. It is a working, family-heavy place with less money and fewer degrees than the Surrey commuter towns around it.