Three Mile Cross belongs to people who read the mortgage offer and the school admissions policy in the same weekend. Three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. Around half the adults have a degree. Hardly anyone says their health is poor. It's a village of people at the busiest stage of their lives, with the paperwork to show for it.
Owning is the default here. The 2021 census, the source for every population figure on this page, puts owner-occupiers at about 75% of households. Private renters make up about 12%, and social renters about 7%. In a village of about 3,460 people across 1,369 households, that leaves very few rental listings, and the landlords who have them know it.
The age profile is young for anywhere with a village name. The median age is 35, and about 40% of residents are between 25 and 44. That's the age when people take on the biggest mortgage they'll ever have and the smallest amount of sleep, usually at the same time. Retirement villages sell peace and quiet. This one sells a garage full of scooters.
Incomes match the houses. The modelled median household income was about £78,500 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That's a gross figure from a few years ago, not today's pay, but it describes households where two decent salaries are what make the numbers work. Losing one of those salaries would be felt here in a way the neat front gardens don't show.
Families shape the place. About 31% of households are couples with children, the single biggest reason the streets look the way they do. Lone parents make up about 7%. About 22% of households are one person living alone, and within that group about 7% of all households are a single pensioner. They're part of the one-person total, not in addition to it. Families outnumber people living alone, and the school run clogs the roads more than the commute does.
Qualifications lean high. About 49% of adults have a degree-level qualification, about 9% have no qualifications, and full-time students are about 1% of residents. That's a mix you'd expect from a village of home offices and professional couples, and students aren't a factor. Nobody moves to Three Mile Cross for its nightlife, and students least of all.
Health is good. About 91% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and only about 2% as bad or very bad. For the wider Wokingham local authority, preventable deaths are better than the England benchmark, at about 87 per 100,000, and smoking is also better than England, at about 7% of adults. Those are borough figures compared against the national picture, not measurements of this village. The self-reported picture here matches what you'd expect from people with a gym membership and a reason to use it.
The people are one of Three Mile Cross's real strengths: settled owners, young families, strong incomes and good health, in a neighbourhood that plainly works for the people who chose it.