A village of owners, workers, and renters in that order. About fifty-six in a hundred homes are owner-occupied. About four in ten rent, split between private and social. Typical age sits at thirty-six; household income around £56,500. The bit of southern England that pays its mortgage on time, with the bills to match.
The tenure split is mostly settled and mostly owned. Over half the homes in the village are owner-occupied, with around one in six renting privately and roughly a quarter in some form of social or affordable rented accommodation. Total renters land at about four in ten across the two categories. That is a tenure mix with more social-rented presence than the average commuter-belt village, which tends to come from the late-twentieth-century planning era that created most of the housing stock here. The number that matters for stability is the rate of owner-occupation: above half, comfortably, with mortgages and freeholds doing most of the lifting.
The typical resident is about thirty-six, which is younger than people often expect a Sussex village to be. The working-age band, the twenty-fives to forty-fours, covers around three in ten of the population, with the rest spread across children, older workers and the smaller retired tail. Around one in nine residents lives in a single-pensioner household, and about three in ten households are single-person of any age. This is a village built and populated for working life rather than for the post-work years, which is also visible in the school-aged population it sustains.
Median household income sits at about £56,500 a year. Set against the typical sale price in the village of well over £300,000, that is a five-and-something-times-income picture, which is what most of southern England has been operating in for a long time. It is comfortably above the national median and visibly below the income levels of long-distance commuter-belt villages. About a third of working-age residents hold a degree, about one in seven hold no formal qualifications, and around three in a hundred are unemployed. The economic engine is local employment rather than long-distance commuting.
Household composition is mostly families and singles, with the usual spread. About a quarter of households are couples with children, and about one in eight are lone parents with children. Three in ten households are single-person, and around one in nine of all households are pensioners living alone. Multi-car households make up nearly half the village, which is what happens when six in ten people drive to work and a quarter run their working day from home. Overcrowding sits at about three in a hundred, and the share reporting good or very good health is comfortably over eight in ten, which is the rate of a settled and working population rather than a struggling one.
Average is the honest verdict on who lives here, and not in a bad way. A village mostly working-age and mostly home-owning, with mid-range incomes and no extreme on any axis. The kind of place that does not generate stories for the national press in either direction, which is mostly a feature for the people who live there.