Thornbury is a town of settled homeowners in comfortable middle age. Roughly three-quarters of households own their home. The typical resident is 44. The typical household brings in around £66,000 a year. This is a place people move to in order to stop moving, and the numbers read exactly like that.
Ownership is the defining fact of the town. About three-quarters of households own the roof over their heads, a share that puts Thornbury firmly in owner-occupier territory rather than anything transient. Private renting is a minor sport, covering only around one in ten households, with a similar slice in social housing making up the rest of the quarter who do not own. That tenure mix tells you most of what you need to know: this is a stable, low-churn town full of people who have signed a mortgage rather than a six-month lease. Neighbours here tend to still be neighbours a decade on.
The age profile leans middle-aged without tipping into retirement. The median resident is 44, which is comfortably older than a city and younger than a seaside bolthole, and only about a quarter of the population sits in the prime younger-working band of twenty-five to forty-four. That points to a town weighted toward established families and older working households rather than one filling up with people in their first jobs. If you are twenty-three and looking for others your own age, this is not the postcode that supplies them.
Income sits above the ordinary. The typical household earns around £66,000 a year, a comfortable figure that matches the town's settled, professional feel and its house prices. About four in ten adults hold a degree, so this is a well-qualified population, and the money and the qualifications track together in the usual way. Most residents also report good or very good health, which fits a place that is affluent and unhurried rather than pressured. Nobody would call Thornbury flashy, and nobody is scraping by to live here either.
The household make-up is domestic and conventional. Couples with children account for about one in five households, lone-parent families for under one in ten, and single-person households for roughly a quarter, a good chunk of which are older people living alone. That is the shape of a family town with a solid layer of long-settled residents who bought decades ago and never left. It is a place built around households rather than individuals, and the housing stock, mostly houses rather than flats, follows the same logic.
Who lives in Thornbury is easy to summarise: comfortable, established, home-owning households in the middle stretch of life, doing perfectly well. It is an above-average town for the settled and a quiet one for anyone still chasing a scene, and the people who live here chose it precisely because it is the former and not the latter.