Owner-occupiers, and not young ones. More than eight in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their early fifties. A quarter of households are one person on their own. Tatworth is where people land once the moving around has finished.
On tenure, 83% of households own, 9% rent privately and 8% rent from a social landlord. In a village of that ownership level, the practical effect is that very little comes up. Houses change hands when a household reaches the end of a chapter rather than at the pace of a rental market, which is why the place feels settled and why buying into it takes patience.
The age profile follows from that. The median resident is 52, and only 18% of the population falls into the 25 to 44 band that most towns are built around. Nobody is going to mistake this for a place with a young professional problem. What it does mean is that a household arriving with small children joins a smaller cohort than they might be used to.
Income sits at £51,600 for the median household, gross and before anything is deducted, modelled across the wider middle-layer area for the financial year to March 2023. Net of tax, the equivalent figure is around £38,100. Both describe that year rather than today, and both are modelled for an area wider than the village, so treat them as the local order of magnitude rather than the salary of the person next door.
There are 2,736 residents across 1,162 households, which is small enough that the household make-up is worth reading in detail rather than as a set of averages. Lone-parent households account for 5%, which is a low share by national habit and consistent with everything else about the age profile here.
On Census 2021 counts, which are the source for every population figure on this page, 25% of households are one person living alone, and 17% are a single pensioner. That second figure is a subset of the first rather than an addition to it, so a quarter of households are single-occupancy and a large part of that quarter is retirement-age. Couples with dependent children make up 17%. That combination, a village where solo older households and young families sit at roughly the same share, is a specific kind of place: two populations using the same shop at different times of day and rarely being in the same room.
For qualifications, 26% of residents hold a degree-level award and 18% hold none at all, with full-time students at 1%. That is a mixed picture rather than a skewed one, and it is the profile of a rural village with a working economy attached rather than a commuter enclave or a market-town professional belt.
Health reads well. Across the village, 81% of residents report their health as good or very good, and 6% report it as bad or very bad. At the Somerset local-authority level, which covers a far wider area than Tatworth and should not be read as the village's own, the preventable mortality rate is better than the England benchmark and the smoking rate sits at 11%, similar to England. Those are county-level indicators describing a large rural authority, not a verdict on anyone living here.
Who lives here is ordinary in the most literal sense: a settled, older, owner-occupying village on middling income with a healthy population and no particular extreme in either direction. It is not a place with a demographic story to tell, which for most buyers is precisely the point.