Sturry is lived in by people who have finished moving. Three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their late forties. Students barely register. This is a village of people who unpacked years ago and would rather not do it again.
About 77% of households own their home, outright or with a mortgage. About 12% rent privately and about 11% rent from a social landlord. The private landlord is a supporting character in Sturry, not the lead. Most front doors here belong to the people behind them, and the hanging baskets show it.
The median age is 47. People aged 25 to 44 make up about 22% of residents. That puts the typical resident squarely at the age of owning a leaf blower and having firm views on when it's reasonable to use it. The under-forty home buyer exists here, just not in large numbers.
The Office for National Statistics models household income, before tax, at about £55,000, averaged across the area for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is a few years old and describes income then, not now. It's comfortable without being lavish: enough for the second car on the drive, and not so much that anyone stops checking the fuel price.
The figures in the rest of this answer come from the 2021 Census. Couples with dependent children make up about 17% of households and lone-parent households about 10%. Families are a sizeable part of the village, but they aren't the default, whatever the school-run traffic suggests.
About 28% of households are one person living alone. Within that, about 17% of all households are a single pensioner living alone, part of the same group rather than an addition to it. That fits a village where plenty of people moved into a house decades ago, raised a family in it, and then stayed on after the family moved out.
About 31% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, and about 22% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 2%. It's a mixed village, not a graduate enclave and not a place left behind, and the mix reflects when people arrived as much as anything else. For a village this close to a university city, the student share is strikingly low. The students clearly chose somewhere livelier.
About 115 people live in communal settings such as care homes, out of about 5,775 residents in total. That's too few to shift any of the shares above.
Sturry's population is middling in the plainest sense: settled, owner-occupied and neither well-heeled nor struggling. The village looks like it expects the same neighbours next year, and mostly it gets them.