Owners, mostly, who came for the quiet and meant it. Three in four own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. Fewer than one household in five is a couple with children. It's a town in its middle age, and at ease with it.
Every population figure here comes from the Census 2021. About 74% of households own their home, about 19% rent privately and about 7% rent from a social landlord. This is an owner-occupier town. The "investment opportunity" listing for a flat here is courting the minority, and the landlord who buys it will be one of the few on the street.
The typical resident is 46, and about 24% of people are aged 25 to 44. That's grown-up without being old: a place where people bought, stayed and stopped reading the property pages.
Household income averaged about £50,300 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, in the Office for National Statistics' modelled estimate for the area. It's a gross figure from a year that has since passed, and it describes then, not now. It does fit a town where most households own and a good share of them run two cars.
Families with children are a minority here, not the default. About 19% of households are couples with dependent children and about 11% are lone-parent households. The school run exists, but it isn't what sets the rhythm of the day.
About 29% of households are one person living alone, and about 15% of all households are a single pensioner. The pensioners are counted inside the single-person figure, not on top of it. That pattern belongs to a town whose stock suits people who want one floor and no stairs, and it explains why the quiet is so well defended.
About 28% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree-level qualification, about 18% have no formal qualifications, and about 2% are full-time students. It's a broad mix, with no campus and no student rentals. Anyone expecting a university-town crowd of flatmates on the pavement at midnight has picked the wrong town.
About 74 people live in communal settings such as care homes rather than private households. That's too few to change how any of the shares above should be read.
On most measures, Telscombe Cliffs sits in the middle, neither well-off nor struggling. It's a settled, owner-occupied town where people aim to stay rather than climb, and the steadiness is its most honest selling point.