Owners, and most of them are staying. Close to nine in ten households own the roof over their heads. The typical resident is nearer retirement than a first mortgage. One household in three is a single person living alone. Sticker is not a village people pass through, largely because there is nothing on the other side worth passing through to.
About 87% of households own their home, with roughly 10% renting privately and about 2% renting from a social landlord. Across 470 households in total, that makes the rental market less a sector than a footnote. Ownership at that level sets the tone for everything else: the turnover is low, the neighbours are long-serving, and anybody hoping to move in has to wait for somebody to decide otherwise.
The 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure here, puts the median age at 59. Residents aged 25 to 44 account for about 14%, which is the age band that usually brings the pushchairs, the late music and the food deliveries. Sticker has a modest supply of all three.
Household income runs to about £46,200 gross before tax, or about £35,700 once tax is taken, modelled for the financial year to March 2023. That describes 2022 going into 2023 rather than this year, and it sits alongside a median age of 59, which is worth holding in mind before reading it as a portrait of households in their earning prime.
On household make-up, about 33% are one person living alone, and about 22% are a pensioner living alone, which is a subset of that first figure rather than something to add to it. Couples with dependent children come to about 11% and lone-parent households about 7%. The result is a village where the school-run contingent is a minority and the quiet after six in the evening is structural rather than accidental.
Qualifications come out mixed rather than sorted. About 28% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 19% hold none at all, with full-time students under 1% of the population. Two of those numbers point in opposite directions and both are true, which is what a village looks like when it has been absorbing arrivals from different places for decades rather than being built for one type of household.
On health, about 77% of residents describe theirs as good or very good and about 6% as bad or very bad. Widening out, the Cornwall council area comes out similar to England on adult smoking at about 12%, and similar to England on preventable mortality at a rate of about 140. Those are local-authority figures measured against an England benchmark rather than anything recorded in Sticker, and they describe a whole county's services and population.
Who lives here is middling in the most literal sense: settled owners, older than the average, comfortable without being wealthy, and short on new arrivals. Anyone after a village where the demographics do something surprising should keep looking. Anyone who wants the same neighbours in a decade has already found the place.