Streatham is home to Londoners in their thirties, about half of them renting. About half own. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. Nearly half hold a degree. It is a district of people at the point where renting is starting to feel like a phase.
Owners and renters split the district almost exactly down the middle. About 50% of households own their home, about 33% rent privately and about 16% rent from a council or housing association. Every residents' association meeting here is a fair fight.
The median age is 36, and about 36% of residents are aged 25 to 44. The same number turning up twice is a coincidence, though it describes the place well. Streatham is a district of people in the middle of their working lives.
Household income is healthy on paper. The Office for National Statistics models it at about £73,400 a year before tax for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across Streatham's neighbourhoods, and at about £52,000 after tax for the same period. The second figure is the one that meets the rent.
Every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 Census. About 28% of households are one person living alone, and that includes the 8% who are pensioners living alone. Couples with children make up about 17% of households and lone parents about 14%. More Streatham households are a single person than a couple with children, which fits a district made mostly of flats.
About 49% of adults hold a degree-level qualification and about 15% have no qualifications at all. Full-time students are about 2% of residents, so Streatham's graduates are long past the student stage.
About 86% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 4% as bad or very bad. Lambeth, the borough most of Streatham falls in, has a smoking rate of about 11% and a preventable death rate of about 160 per 100,000, and the borough is similar to England on both.
Streatham's residents are qualified, working age and mobile. As a settled community it is weaker than that list suggests, with half the households on a tenancy and a population still deciding whether to stay.