Takeley and Little Canfield is mostly young families who own their homes and earn well. Most households own. The typical resident is under forty. Nearly a third of households are couples with children. Hardly anyone here is a student, and not many live alone.
About 7,300 people live here, in 2,740 households, and every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 census. About 73% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage. About 14% rent privately and about 11% rent from a council or housing association. With four-bedroom family houses making up most of the stock, renting is a smaller part of village life than in the towns around it.
The typical resident is 39. About 27% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years of mortgages and young children. That is the age group the new estates were built for, and the age group that bought them.
Household income is high. Modelled at about £70,500 a year before tax for the financial year to March 2023, the figure is a gross average across the area's neighbourhoods, a few years old, with tax and national insurance still to come off it. That is enough to clear a mortgage on a semi with a comfortable margin, and to make a detached house possible with help from an equity cushion.
Families dominate the households. About 29% are couples with dependent children, and about 10% are lone parents. About 21% of households are one person living alone, and within that, about 9% of all households are pensioners on their own. In a village where most homes have four bedrooms or more, the people living alone are mostly long-standing owners whose children have left home.
Qualifications are mixed. About 32% of residents have a degree or equivalent, and about 14% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up only about 2% of residents. There is no university nearby to fill rented rooms with students, so nearly everyone in the village is either working, retired or at school.
Takeley and Little Canfield is a well-off, well-settled place to live. It is a village of owner-occupying families with good incomes, and not much else changes that picture.