Stokenchurch is mostly homeowners in mid-life, earning decent money and driving everywhere. Seven in ten own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Families with children live alongside a fair number of people living alone. A comfortable, unshowy village of people who mostly work somewhere else.
The 2021 Census, the source for every population figure on this page, found about 72% of Stokenchurch households owning their home. About 13% rent privately and a similar share rent from a council or housing association. With the renters split evenly between private and social landlords, nobody here is building a buy-to-let empire.
The median age is 43, and about 25% of residents are in the 25 to 44 bracket. That is a village of established households, mostly past the first flat and well into the mortgage on the second house.
The Office for National Statistics modelled average household income here at about £62,600 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That is a good income, and in a village where a typical sale runs well into six figures, a large share of it goes on the mortgage.
Couples with dependent children make up about 22% of households and lone parents about 9%. At the other end, about 29% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% are a single pensioner, a group counted within that 29%. The school run and the meals-on-wheels round pass each other on the same roads.
About 29% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 17% have no formal qualifications, and only about 1% are full-time students. With no college or university here, the 18-year-olds leave and the village carries on with the people who stayed.
About 84% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Buckinghamshire, the council area this page's health benchmarks come from, smoking rates and the rate of deaths judged preventable are both better than the England average. Those are county figures, and they say how Buckinghamshire compares with England rather than describing Stokenchurch's own residents.
The people in Stokenchurch are ordinary, comfortable and mid-life, with nothing much about them that stands out in either direction.